Spatial Metagenomic Characterization of Microbial Biogeography

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides for a method of determining microbial identities and/or abundances in a biological sample. The method may comprise: (a) immobilizing the biological sample in a matrix; (b) fracturing/breaking the matrix (that comprises the biological sample) into clusters; and (c) determining identities and/or abundances of microbes in the clusters.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No.62/648,716 filed on Mar. 27, 2018, which is incorporated herein byreference in its entirety.

GOVERNMENT LICENSE RIGHTS

This invention was made with government support under OD009172 andAI132403 awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The governmenthas certain rights in the invention.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides for a method to determine themicron-scale spatial co-localization of genomic material within a3-dimensional sample by microdroplet encapsulation and high-throughputsequencing of fractionations of microclusters from the sample.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The local spatial organization of the gut microbiome influences avariety of ecological properties, including colonization (see Lee, S. M.et al. Bacterial colonization factors control specificity and stabilityof the gut microbiota. Nature 1-6 (2013). doi:10.1038/nature12447;Pereira, F. C. & Berry, D. Microbial nutrient niches in the gut. EnvironMicrobiol 19, 1366-1378 (2017); Donaldson, G. P. et al. Gut microbiotautilize immunoglobulin A for mucosal colonization. Science 360, 795-800(2018); Whitaker, W. R., Shepherd, E. S. & Sonnenburg, J. L. TunableExpression Tools Enable Single-Cell Strain Distinction in the GutMicrobiome. Cell 169, 538-546.e12 (2017)), metabolism (see Nagara, Y.,Takada, T., Nagata, Y., Kado, S. & Kushiro, A. Microscale spatialanalysis provides evidence for adhesive monopolization of dietarynutrients by specific intestinal bacteria. PLoS ONE 12, e0175497(2017)), host-microbe and inter-microbial interactions (see Wexler, A.G. et al. Human symbionts inject and neutralize antibacterial toxins topersist in the gut. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 201525637-6 (2016).doi:10.1073/pnas.1525637113) and community stability (see Reichenbach,T., Mobilia, M. & Frey, E. Mobility promotes and jeopardizesbiodiversity in rock-paper-scissors games. Nature 448, 1046-1049 (2007);Coyte, K. Z., Schluter, J. & Foster, K. R. The ecology of themicrobiome: Networks, competition, and stability. Science 350, 663-666(2015)). However, current microbiome profiling approaches such asmetagenomic sequencing require homogenization of the input material andthus the physical destruction of any underlying spatial information.While imaging techniques could reveal useful spatial information, theyrely on hybridization by short DNA probes of limited spectral diversity,yielding data with low taxonomic resolution and often requiringextensive empirical optimization (see Valm, A. M., Welch, J. L. M. &Borisy, G. G. CLASI-FISH: Principles of combinatorial labeling andspectral imaging. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 35, 496-502(2012); Amann, R. & Fuchs, B. M. Single-cell identification in microbialcommunities by improved fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques.Nature Reviews Microbiology 6, 339-348 (2008)). Bacteria are alsodensely packed in communities, limiting identification and analysis ofindividual cells (see Mark Welch, J. L., Hasegawa, Y., McNulty, N. P.,Gordon, J. I. & Borisy, G. G. Spatial organization of a model 15-memberhuman gut microbiota established in gnotobiotic mice. Proc. Natl. Acad.Sci. U.S.A. 21, 201711596-E9114 (2017)). Imaging approaches can profilesimple synthetic communities composed of a small number of cultivablespecies (see Geva-Zatorsky, N. et al. (2015); Whitaker, W. R., Shepherd,E. S. & Sonnenburg, J. L. (2017)., but imaging techniques arechallenging to scale to complex and diverse natural microbiomes. Adirect and unbiased method for high-taxonomic resolution andmicron-scale dissection of natural microbial biogeography is criticallyneeded to mechanistically elucidate the role of the gut microbiome inhealth and disease.

In macroecology, plot sampling is used to study the spatial organizationof large ecosystems, which are otherwise impractical to fullycharacterize. By surveying many smaller plots from a larger region, onecan delineate local distributions of species and statistically inferfundamental properties of global community organization and function.The methods of the present invention provide a multiplexed sequencingtechnique that analyzes microbial cells in their native geographicalcontext to statistically reconstruct the local spatial organization ofthe microbiome. Microbial colocalization can be shown in a variety ofbiological samples, including, soil, gut and biofilm. The methods of thepresent invention can determine which microbes are spatially associatedwith which other microbes and can comprise the following steps: (1)taking an intact sample and preserving its spatial structure via in-situperfusion and polymerization of a chemical matrix, (2) processing thatmatrix by chemical or enzymatic steps, (3) fractioning the matrix intosmaller microparticles, (4) capture each microparticle in emulsiondroplets with unique molecular barcodes, (5) PCR amplification of saidgenetic material from microparticles in each droplet, (6) breaking upthe droplets and pooling amplified material for next-generationsequencing measurements.

SUMMARY

The present disclosure provides for a method of determining thecompositions/identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g., microbessuch as microbial identities and/or abundances) in a biological sample.The method may comprise: (a) immobilizing the biological sample in amatrix; (b) fracturing/breaking the matrix (that comprises thebiological sample) into clusters; and (c) determining identities and/orabundances of microbes in the clusters.

The clusters (each cluster of the clusters) may comprise co-localizedcells.

In step (c), the identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g.,microbes) may be determined by sequencing DNAs (e.g., genomic DNAs)and/or RNAs.

In step (c), the identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g.,microbes) may be determined by analyzing proteins, polypeptides,carbohydrates, and/or metabolites.

The matrix may be a gel matrix.

In step (a), the biological sample may be immobilized via perfusion andpolymerization of the matrix.

The matrix may comprise a polymer, such as an acrylamide polymer.

The matrix may comprise a plurality of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA)(gene) amplification primers. The plurality of 16S rRNA amplificationprimers may be covalently linked to the matrix. The plurality of 16SrRNA (gene) amplification primers may be linked to the matrix throughphotocleavable linkers, such as acrydite linkers.

The method may further comprise step (d) processing the matrix bychemical or enzymatic means after step (a) or step (b). For example,step (d) may comprise lysing cells. The method may further comprise step(e) passing the clusters through a filter for size selection. After step(e), the clusters may have a median diameter ranging from about 1 μm toabout 100 μm, from about 10 μm to about 50 μm, from about 1 μm to about20 μm, from about 1 μm to about 50 μm, from about 10 μm to about 40 μm,from about 10 μm to about 80 μm, about 1 μm, about 5 μm, about 10 μm,about 20 μm, about 30 μm, about 40 μm, about 50 μm, about 60 μm, about70 μm, about 80 μm, about 90 μm, about 100 μm, about 120 μm, about 150μm, about 170 μm, about 200 μm, about 300 μm, about 400 μm, about 500μm, about 600 μm, about 700 μm, about 80 μm, or about 900 μm.

The clusters may be microparticles.

In step (b), the matrix may be fractured through cryo-fracturing such ascryo-bead beating.

In step (c), identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g., microbes)may be determined through droplet-based encapsulation.

The droplet-based encapsulation may be through co-encapsulating theclusters with beads in droplets (e.g., emulsion droplets), wherein eachdroplet comprises (consists essentially of, or consists of) a clusterand a bead, each bead comprising a unique molecular barcode.

The beads may comprise a plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplificationprimers. The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers linkedto each bead may comprise a unique (and/or identical) molecular barcode.

The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers may be covalentlylinked to the beads.

The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers may be linked tothe beads through photocleavable linkers, such as acrydite linkers.

The beads may comprise a polymer, such as an acrylamide polymer.

The droplet-based encapsulation may be through capturing the clusters inemulsion droplets comprising molecular barcodes, each emulsion dropletcomprising identical molecular barcodes.

The (emulsion) droplets may have a diameter ranging from about 35 μm toabout 45 μm, from about 1 μm to about 100 μm, from about 10 μm to about50 μm, from about 1 μm to about 20 μm, from about 1 μm to about 50 μm,from about 10 μm to about 40 μm, or from about 10 μm to about 80 μm.

The method may further comprise step (f) cleaving the plurality of 16SrRNA (gene) amplification primers from the matrix and/or the beads.

The method may further comprise step (g) degrading the matrix. Thematrix may be degraded through exposure to reducing conditions.

The method may further comprise step (h) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)amplification.

The sequencing/analysis may be deep sequencing or any sequencing orother techniques discussed herein or understood by a skilled artisan.

The biological sample may be obtained from a mammal. The biologicalsample may be obtained from a nervous system, a pulmonary system, aperipheral vascular system, a cardiovascular system, and/or agastrointestinal system of a mammal. The biological sample may beobtained from the brain, a lung, a bronchus, an alveolus, an artery, avein, a heart, an esophagus, a stomach, a small intestine, a largeintestine, or combinations thereof.

The biological sample may be obtained from a tumor or may be a tumorsample.

The biological sample may be a soil sample, a gut sample, and/or abiofilm sample.

The biological sample may be an environmental sample.

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FIGS. 1a-1c : Metagenomic Plot-sampling by sequencing (MaP-seq) andquality control. a) Schematic of the MaP-seq technique for micron-scaleplot-sampling of microbiome samples. b) MaP-seq profiling of a mixtureof clusters prepared from homogenized fecal bacteria or E. coli. Thenumber of reads (k, thousands of reads) for each barcode (of 399 total)belonging to either the E. coli OTU or fecal OTUs is displayed as ascatter plot; blue dots: E. coli cluster, red dots: fecal cluster,purple dots: mixed cluster. c) Correlation between OTU relativeabundance (RA) measurements obtained by standard bulk 16S sequencing ofthe same homogenized fecal community compared to MaP-seq OTU RAmeasurements averaged across individual homogenized fecal clusters (162total, clusters with <10% E. coli reads); all RA are plotted on log 10scale, only OTUs with greater than 0.01% RA are displayed, r indicatesPearson correlation.

FIGS. 2a-2d : Spatial organization of the mouse distal colon microbiota.a) MaP-seq profiling of ˜30 μm median diameter distal colon clusters.Raw relative abundance (RA) data from MaP-seq is displayed as a heatmap;columns represent individual clusters (of 1,406), and rows representabundant and prevalent OTUs (>2% RA in >10% of all clusters; 24 of 246detected OTUs) aggregated from two technical replicate datasets of thesame sample. Shading denotes the RA of individual OTUs in each cluster(linear scale); OTUs are sorted by decreasing prevalence (proportion ofclusters OTU is >2% RA), and clusters are clustered by Euclideandistance. The prevalence of each OTU across clusters is displayed to theright as a bar plot, and each bar is colored by the OTUs assignedtaxonomy at the family level (legend in d). b) Correlation between OTURA measurements obtained by standard bulk 16S sequencing of the samesample compared to OTU prevalence across clusters as calculated in a);n.d. indicates not detected >2% RA in any clusters, only OTUs greaterthan 0.01% RA as measured by bulk 16S sequencing are displayed. c)Histogram of the number of OTUs per cluster (OTUs >2% RA), shown forhomogenized fecal clusters which serve as a mixed control (red outline,162 total) and distal colon clusters (grey, 1,406 total) of the samesize. Dotted lines indicate median value for each group. d) For eachabundant and prevalent OTU pair (OTUi,j) spatial associations werecalculated, shading indicates log 2 odds ratio, x denotes statisticallysignificant association (Fisher's exact test, p<0.05, FDR=0.05); coloredboxes represent OTU taxonomy at the family level.

FIGS. 3a-3e : Spatial association detection and technicalreproducibility. a) Expanded view of FIG. 2a ; abundant and prevalentOTUs (>2% abundance in >1% of clusters) are displayed; the cluster mapis organized as in FIG. 2a , RA denotes relative abundance. The columnindicators on top indicate the technical replicate each clusteroriginated from (red, replicate 1; black, replicate 2). b) A volcanoplot visualization of data from FIG. 2d ; red dotted line indicatesthreshold for statistically significant associations (Fisher's exacttest, p<0.05). c) Correlation between association detection utilizingraw or subsampled reads. Reads were subsampled for all clusters to theminimum read cutoff (717 reads) and association detection was performedas before. The resulting odds ratios of pairwise associations werehighly correlated to those calculated from the raw reads (Pearsonr=0.96). These results suggest that variable read counts for eachcluster do not significantly alter detected associations (i.e. due touse of a 2% abundance threshold). d) Dependence of association detectionon cluster sampling depth. The full dataset was subsampled, and the sameassociation detection was performed. The number of significantassociations detected is plotted; the line indicates the mean and errorband indicates the standard deviation of ten iterations of subsampling.The number of significant associations detected linearly increases withthe number of clusters sampled, implying even deeper cluster datacollection could enable characterization of weaker associations betweenless abundant taxa. e) Technical reproducibility of associationdetection between the two technical replicate datasets of the samesample. Association detection was performed on each technical replicate,and the calculated odds ratio of association is plotted for all pairwiseassociations. For associations detected as significant in at least oneof the two replicates, the sign of association is the same between bothreplicates for the majority of cases (64/74 associations). Forassociations detected as significant in both replicates (15associations) the sign is the same in all cases. These results indicategood correspondence of detected microscopic spatial associations betweentechnical replicates.

FIGS. 4a-4h : Quality control of the MaP-seq technique by cluster mixingexperiment. a) Schematic of the cluster mixing experiment; clusterscontaining either E. coli or homogenized fecal bacteria are prepared,mixed, and processed through the MaP-seq pipeline. b) Example ofresulting distribution of read counts per identified unique barcode forthe mixing experiment. A conservative threshold cutoff for consideringreal clusters is set as the total number reads divided by 2,500 (i.e.,the number of clusters that were utilized as input during microfluidicencapsulation, and assuming an equal read distribution for eachcluster). The calculated read cutoff (1,440 reads) is indicated by thered line, which results in 399 clusters for downstream analysis. TheY-axis is set to a maximum of 500 clusters for visualization purposes.c) Resulting raw data for the mixing experiment displayed as a clustermap; columns indicate the 399 clusters passing the read cutoff and rowsindicate prevalent and abundant OTUs (OTUs present >2% relativeabundance in >1% of all clusters). The E. coli OTU is the first row,while other rows represent fecal bacterial OTUs. The plot is arranged asin FIG. 2a , RA denotes relative abundance. d) An alternativevisualization of FIG. 1b , plotting the fraction of reads in eachcluster mapping to the spike-in E. coli OTU; most clusters show eitherentirely spike-in mapping reads or no spike-in mapping reads asexpected. A small number of clusters show low levels of residualcontamination; for this reason, a conservative relative abundance cutoffis used throughout downstream analysis (>2% relative abundance) toclassify an OTU as present within a given cluster. e) Detectionsensitivity of MaP-seq; the relative abundance of OTUs is compared tothe proportion of clusters an OTU is detected in (with >2% relativeabundance cutoff). Higher abundance OTUs display higher detectionsensitivity as expected. f) Detection of significant pairwiseassociations in the cluster mixing experiment. The two communitiescontain defined spatial associations; the fecal bacteria are expected tobe positively associated with each other, whereas the fecal bacteriashould be negatively associated with E. coli. Association analysis wasconducted in the same manner as FIG. 1d ; the fecal bacteria are foundto be strongly associated and negatively associated with E. coli asexpected. The associations are much stronger than observed in the murinegut (i.e. note that the color map scale spans a larger range this plot).g-h) To confirm technical reproducibility across different experimentsand particles sizes, the cluster mixing experiment was repeated but withparticles of ˜20 μm median size. Fecal bacteria constituted onecommunity and Sporocarcina pasteurii, an environmental taxa constituteda second community. g) is analyzed as in FIG. 1b and h) as in FIG. 1c .This revealed low mixing rates (1.65% mixed), negligible contamination(<0.003% of reads) and good correlation to bulk 16S sequencing (Pearsoncorrelation r=0.72), confirming technical reproducibility of thetechnique across different experiments and particle sizes.

FIGS. 5a-5d : Survey of spatial organization across the mousegastrointestinal tract. a) Top: absolute abundance within gut intestinalcompartments calculated from spike-in sequencing (arbitrary units,normalized to the maximum value) and number of OTUs (i.e. alphadiversity, number of OTUs >0.1% relative abundance). Bottom: absoluteabundance of abundant OTUs (>1% of maximum OTU absolute abundance in anysample) is shown below as a heatmap (log 10 scale); OTUs are clusteredby Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. b) Histogram of the number of OTUs percluster (OTUs >2% RA). The number of clusters aggregated from twotechnical replicates is indicated (si6 n=386, cec n=405, co2 n=259), anddotted line indicates median value. c) tSNE visualization of clustersutilizing Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of OTU relative abundances(subsampled to 314 reads across all clusters, number of clustersindicated above). On the left, each cluster is colored by site oforigin; on the right each cluster is colored by the relative abundanceof the six most abundant families within each cluster (linear scale). d)Pairwise spatial associations for abundant and prevalent OTUs visualizedas a circular graph; the number of clusters utilized is subsampled tothe lowest number across the three samples (259 clusters). Nodesindicate OTUs, sizing is proportional to the prevalence of OTUs acrossclusters and color represents OTU taxonomy at the family level, dottededges denote all possible associations and shaded edges denotestatistically significant associations (p<0.05, FDR=0.05).

FIGS. 6a-6b : MaP-seq profiling of colonic samples at a smaller sizescale. a) Colonic clusters of −7 μm diameter were profiled in parallel.A histogram is shown with the number of OTUs per cluster compared to the˜20 μm clusters profiled in FIG. 3b . The smaller size-scale contains asignificantly lower number of OTUs per cluster as expected (Mann-WhitneyU test, p<10⁻⁶). The number of clusters aggregated across two technicalreplicates is indicated, and the dotted line indicates the median value.b) Pairwise spatial associations for prevalent and abundant OTUsvisualized as a force directed graph. Nodes indicate OTUs, and sizes areproportional to prevalence of OTUs across clusters and coloringrepresent taxonomy at the family level. Edges represent statisticallysignificant associations (Fisher's exact test, p<0.05, FDR=0.05). ˜20 μmcolonic clusters display same data as shown in FIG. 3d . The fulldataset for each sample is utilized in calculation of pairwiseassociations. Robust positive co-associations are recapitulated betweenthe Bacteroidales taxa between at both of the size scales.

FIGS. 7a-7h : Analysis of taxa with altered spatial structuring in thececum. a) OTU clustering or self-aggregation in the murine cecum; forprevalent OTUs (>2% RA in >10% all clusters) the proportion of times anOTU is observed as the majority of the cluster (>50% relative abundance)is plotted. Grey dotted line indicates the average clustering value, andblack dotted line indicates two times the average clustering value. b)FISH imaging of a cecum section from the same sample profiled byMaP-seq; green is Erec482 probe targeting Lachnospiraceae, blue isLab148 probe targeting Lactobacillaceae, and magenta is Ato291 probetargeting Coriobacteriales. c-0 Four representative regions showingErec482 targeted Lachnospiraceae displaying self-aggregating clusters.The source of each of the four regions is indicated by a yellow outlinein b). g-h) Two representative regions showing areas with noLachnospiraceae self-aggregation. The source of the two regions isindicated by a red outline in b).

FIGS. 8a-8h : Erec482-stained bacterial aggregations appear to excludeother bacteria and additional imaging controls. a) The same region shownin fig. S12 c is displayed, but the four channels are displayedindependently. b) To investigate if other bacteria not targeted by theutilized FISH probes (Lab148 and Ato291 probes) may be present in theapparent Erec482 targeted Lachnospiraceae clusters, DAPI counterstaining(targeted to cell gDNA) was also investigated. A bacterial aggregationis displayed from the image in a); the region is indicated by a yellowoutline. Apparent Erec482 aggregations display a single bacterialmorphology under DAPI staining, and the DAPI staining co-localizes withErec482 probe fluorescence. These results imply that the apparentErec482 Lachnospiraceae clusters exclude other bacteria in the cecum. c)A representative region not displaying Erec482 targeted Lachnospiraceaeclusters; a variety of cell morphologies are observable with DAPIstaining and Erec482, Lab148 and Ato291 stained bacteria are present.The region displayed is indicated by a red outline in a). d-f) Tovalidate the Erec482-stained structures, we performed two-color FISHutilizing the Erec482 probe (this time with a Cy3 fluorophore) and aEub338 probe targeted to all bacteria. d) shows the Eub338 probe, e)shows the Erec482 probe, demonstrating that similar aggregations asobserved previously (i.e. see inset zoom of specific structures, yellowoutline) are co-stained in both channels, indicating they are bacteria.f) shows a different section not stained with a Cy3 probe but with sameexposure settings, indicating that the Erec482 staining is specific andnot due to autofluorescence. g-h) Additional controls showing Eub338 andNon338 (scrambled control probe) FISH with same exposure settings. g)shows Eub338 probe, h) shows Non338 probe. Lumenal bacteria are bound bythe Eub338 and not Non338 probe validating the FISH staining conditions.

FIGS. 9a-9d : Spatial organization in the colon after dietaryperturbation. a) Absolute abundance of dominant OTUs (>1% of maximum OTUabsolute abundance in any sample) in the distal colon of co-housed micefed a low fat, plant-polysaccharide diet (LF) or high fat diet (HF) for10 days is shown as a heatmap (log 10 scale). Labels on right indicateLF enriched, HF enriched and shared OTUs. b) Top: histogram of thenumber of OTUs per cluster (OTUs >2% RA). Bottom: histogram of thenumber of distinct families per cluster (families >2% RA). For bothplots, green indicates LF clusters and orange indicates HF clusters,dotted line indicates median value, and the number of clustersaggregated from two technical replicates is indicated (LF co2 n=495, HFco2 n=938). c) Histogram of net relatedness index (NRI) calculated foreach cluster containing at least two OTUs, green indicates LF clustersand orange indicates HF clusters. d) tSNE visualization of clustersutilizing Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of OTU relative abundances(subsampled to 121 reads across all clusters). Left, cluster colored bysite of origin; LF (green), HF (orange), number of clusters indicatedabove. In addition a biological replicate from an adjacent colonicsegment of the same LF mouse is shown (LF(rep), dark green, n=359clusters). Red arrows indicate examples of cluster configurationsobserved in both diet conditions. Right, each cluster is colored by therelative abundance of the eight most abundant families within eachcluster (linear scale).

FIGS. 10a-10d : Additional information for tSNE analysis of dietaryperturbation clusters. a) Same figure as FIG. 4d for reference. b)Clusters from each source (LF, LF(rep), HF) plotted separately on thesame tSNE manifold for visualization purposes. c) Clusters are shaded bythe number of OTUs per cluster (OTUs >2% RA in the subsampled datasetutilized for tSNE analysis). d) Clusters are shaded by the log 10relative abundance of individual OTUs within each cluster. Red arrows onBacteroidaceae OTU 6 and Porphyromondaceae OTU 5 plots indicate the sameregions in FIG. 4d where clusters dominated by each of these taxarespectively are observed in both diets. The 24 OTUs with the highestaverage relative abundance across all clusters are displayed.

FIGS. 11a-11d : Barcoded bead quality control. a) Schematic of themicrofluidic droplet generation device utilized to fabricate barcodedbeads. b) Image of resulting barcoded gel beads visualized by phasecontrast and hybridized with a FISH probe targeted to the terminal 16S515f primer region present in fully extended primer product(bead_515f_cy5, see Table 4). c) Quantification of cleanup of primersynthesis intermediates by Exo1 cleanup; the mean fluorescence intensityof beads was quantified (using Nikon Elements AR) when hybridized by aFISH probe targeted to the 515f site present on fully extended primerproduct (bead_515f_cy5) or a FISH probe targeted to the pe1 primerextension site (bead_pe1_cy5, see Table 4) present in all synthesisintermediates. Before cleanup the amount of pe1 sites on beads arehigher than 515f sites, while after cleanup the amount of pe1 and 515fsites on beads are roughly equal, implying removal of un-extended primerintermediates (which contain pe1 sites, but not the terminal 515f site).d) Photorelease of amplification primer from beads; beads were subjectedto no UV exposure or UV exposure for 10 minutes and supernatant wascollected and analyzed via Agilent Bioanalyzer dsDNA HS assay; peaks at˜40 s and ˜110 s are gel migration markers. A short primer product isobserved to be released in a UV exposure dependent fashion.

FIGS. 12a-12b : Barcoded bead synthesis schematic. a) Beads aresynthesized via a three-step split-and-pool synthesis approach,resulting in 96 (see Cordero, O. X. & Datta, M. S. Microbialinteractions and community assembly at microscales. Current Opinion inMicrobiology 31, 227-234 (2016)) or 884,736 possible unique barcodes.The three sets of primers are denoted primer extension sets 1-3 (i.e.pe1, pe2, and pe3). b) Extension strategy utilized for bead synthesis. Aprimer is linked to the gel bead via an acrydite linker and alsocontains a photocleavable linker group. Barcoded primers are hybridizedto this linked primer and serve as an extension template for addingbarcodes to the bead-linked primers. After each round, the extensiontemplate primer is stripped, and the next round of extension isperformed. The sequence of the final primer product is indicated at thebottom.

FIGS. 13a-13e : Cluster generation and quality control. a) Schematic ofcluster generation process. A tissue section is fixed and embedded in agel matrix by in situ acrylamide perfusion and polymerization. Shown isa murine intestinal section within a set gel as an example (excess gelis untrimmed at this step); a PCR tube placed to the right for scale.The gel-embedded sample is then subjected to cryofracturing, lysispreparation steps, and finally size-selection by passing clustersthrough nylon mesh filters of various sizes. b) Microscopy of fourresulting clusters generated from murine colonic samples (size-selectedfor “large” clusters) visualized with phase-contrast or stained withSYBR Green I targeting genomic DNA; individual cells fixed in theiroriginal spatial orientation can be observed as punctate dots within theclusters. c) Resulting size distributions of clusters aftersize-selection to three size scales (small, medium and large);size-selected clusters were stained with SYBR Green I and imaged,clusters were identified by a fluorescence threshold, and the equivalentdiameter of identified clusters was calculated using Nikon Elements AR.d) Photorelease of reverse amplification primer from clusters; clusterswere subjected to no UV exposure or UV exposure for 10 minutes andsupernatant was collected and analyzed via Agilent Bioanalyzer dsDNA HSassay; peaks at ˜40 s and ˜110 s are gel migration markers. A shortprimer product is observed to be released in a UV exposure dependentfashion. e) Degradation of cluster polyacrylamide gel matrices byexposure to reducing conditions; clusters were incubated in PCRencapsulation mix with and without 1 mM DTT (i.e., final concentrationof DTT in droplets) for 2 hours; without DTT clusters remain stable andretain their structure; with DTT reducing conditions, the gel matrixdegrades resulting in dispersion of individual cells observable asstained puncta.

FIGS. 14a-14c : Microfluidic encapsulation of barcoded beads andclusters. a) Schematic of the microfluidic droplet generation deviceutilized to co-encapsulate barcoded beads and clusters. Beads are packedsingle file to enable loading that beats Poisson encapsulationstatistics expected by random loading. b) Image of the microfluidicdevice during operation. c) Resulting emulsion after encapsulation;beads can be observed as a faint sphere within droplets; orange arrowsindicate three example droplets (of many in the field of view) with asingle barcoded bead (but no clusters). One droplet with a singlebarcoded bead (red arrow) and a single cluster (blue arrow) can beobserved in this field of view.

FIGS. 15a-15b : Preliminary results of spatial changes in smallintestinal microbiome in wild-type (WT) and ciprofloxacin(Cipro)-treated mice. a) Bulk abundance and composition in the murinesmall intestine. b) Spatial co-occurrence network of murine microbiomein WT and Cipro conditions. Each node correspond to a significant OTU.Each edge corresponds to co-occurrence of two OTUs with colors denotingincreasing likelihood of co-occurrence.

FIGS. 16a-16b : a) Antibiotics-FMT study design. b) Comparison of fecalmicrobiome of wild-type C57BL6/J mice from two suppliers, Taconic andJackson Labs.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The methods and systems of the present disclosure provide a MetagenomicPlot-sampling by sequencing (MaP-seq), a multiplexed sequencingtechnique that analyzes microbial cells in their native geographicalcontext to statistically reconstruct the local spatial organization ofthe microbiome (FIG. 1a ). To perform MaP-seq, an input sample is firstphysically fixed by immobilizing the microbiota via perfusion and insitu polymerization of an acrylamide polymer matrix that also contains acovalently linked reverse 16S rRNA amplification primer. The embeddedsample is then fractured via cryo-bead beating, subjected to cell lysis,and passed through nylon mesh filters for size selection to yield cellclusters or particles of desired and tunable physical sizes (i.e., byutilizing different mesh filter sizes). Resulting clusters containgenomic DNA immobilized in their original arrangement, preserving localspatial information. Next, a microfluidic device is used toco-encapsulate these clusters with gel beads, each containing uniquelybarcoded forward 16S rRNA amplification primers. Primers arephotocleaved from the beads and clusters, genomic DNA is released fromclusters by triggered degradation of the polymer matrix within droplets,and PCR amplification of the 16S V4 region is performed. Droplets arethen broken apart, and the resulting library is subjected to deepsequencing. Sequencing reads are filtered and grouped by their uniquebarcodes, which yield the identity and abundance of bacterialoperational taxonomic units (OTUs) within individual cell clusters.

The present disclosure provides for a method of determining thecompositions/identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g., microbessuch as microbial identities and/or abundances) in a biological sample.The method may comprise: (a) immobilizing the biological sample in amatrix; (b) fracturing/breaking the matrix (that comprises thebiological sample) into clusters; and (c) determining identities and/orabundances of microbes in the clusters.

The clusters (each cluster of the clusters) may comprise co-localizedcells.

In step (c), the identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g.,microbes) may be determined by sequencing DNAs (e.g., genomic DNAs)and/or RNAs.

In step (c), the identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g.,microbes) may be determined by analyzing proteins, polypeptides,carbohydrates, and/or metabolites.

The matrix may be a gel matrix.

In step (a), the biological sample may be immobilized via perfusion andpolymerization of the matrix.

The matrix may comprise a polymer, such as an acrylamide polymer.

The matrix may comprise a plurality of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA)(gene) amplification primers. The plurality of 16S rRNA amplificationprimers may be covalently linked to the matrix. The plurality of 16SrRNA (gene) amplification primers may be linked to the matrix throughphotocleavable linkers, such as acrydite linkers.

The method may further comprise step (d) processing the matrix bychemical or enzymatic means after step (a) or step (b). For example,step (d) may comprise lysing cells. The method may further comprise step(e) passing the clusters through a filter for size selection. After step(e), the clusters may have a median diameter ranging from about 1 μm toabout 100 μm, from about 10 μm to about 50 μm, from about 1 μm to about20 μm, from about 1 μm to about 50 μm, from about 10 μm to about 40 μm,from about 10 μm to about 80 μm, about 1 μm, about 5 μm, about 10 μm,about 20 μm, about 30 μm, about 40 μm, about 50 μm, about 60 μm, about70 μm, about 80 μm, about 90 μm, about 100 μm, about 120 μm, about 150μm, about 170 μm, about 200 μm, about 300 μm, about 400 μm, about 500μm, about 600 μm, about 700 μm, about 80 μm, or about 900 μm.

The clusters may be microparticles.

In step (b), the matrix may be fractured through cryo-fracturing such ascryo-bead beating.

In step (c), identities and/or abundances of organisms (e.g., microbes)may be determined through droplet-based encapsulation.

The droplet-based encapsulation may be through co-encapsulating theclusters with beads in droplets (e.g., emulsion droplets), wherein eachdroplet comprises (consists essentially of, or consists of) a clusterand a bead, each bead comprising a unique molecular barcode.

The beads may comprise a plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplificationprimers. The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers linkedto each bead may comprise a unique (and/or identical) molecular barcode.

The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers may be covalentlylinked to the beads.

The plurality of 16S rRNA (gene) amplification primers may be linked tothe beads through photocleavable linkers, such as acrydite linkers.

The beads may comprise a polymer, such as an acrylamide polymer.

The droplet-based encapsulation may be through capturing the clusters inemulsion droplets comprising molecular barcodes, each emulsion dropletcomprising identical molecular barcodes.

The (emulsion) droplets may have a diameter ranging from about 35 μm toabout 45 μm, from about 1 μm to about 100 μm, from about 10 μm to about50 μm, from about 1 μm to about 20 μm, from about 1 μm to about 50 μm,from about 10 μm to about 40 μm, or from about 10 μm to about 80 μm.

The method may further comprise step (f) cleaving the plurality of 16SrRNA (gene) amplification primers from the matrix and/or the beads.

The method may further comprise step (g) degrading the matrix. Thematrix may be degraded through exposure to reducing conditions.

The method may further comprise step (h) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)amplification.

The sequencing/analysis may be deep sequencing, or any sequencing orother techniques discussed herein or understood by a skilled artisan.

The biological sample may be obtained from a mammal. The biologicalsample may be obtained from a nervous system, a pulmonary system, aperipheral vascular system, a cardiovascular system, and/or agastrointestinal system of a mammal. The biological sample may beobtained from the brain, a lung, a bronchus, an alveolus, an artery, avein, a heart, an esophagus, a stomach, a small intestine, a largeintestine, or combinations thereof.

The biological sample may be obtained from a tumor or may be a tumorsample.

The biological sample may be a soil sample, a gut sample, and/or abiofilm sample.

The biological sample may be an environmental sample.

The present nucleic acids (e.g., primers such as 16S rRNA amplificationprimers) may or may not comprise barcode elements (e.g., a uniquemolecular barcode for each bead). Barcode elements may be used asidentifiers for a cluster and may indicate the presence of one or morespecific sequences in a cluster (e.g., DNA or RNA). Members of a set ofbarcode elements have a sufficiently unique nucleic acid sequence suchthat each barcode element is readily distinguishable from the otherbarcode elements of the set. Barcode elements may be of any length ofnucleotides, e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 or morenucleotides in length. Detecting barcode elements and determining thenucleic acid sequence of a barcode element or plurality of barcodeelements are used to determine the presence of an associated DNA or RNAelement. Barcode elements can be detected by any method known in theart, including sequencing or microarray methods.

In one embodiment, barcoded primers are constructed via a split-and-poolprimer extension strategy with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 or morebarcode extension rounds. Klein, A. M. et al. Droplet Barcoding forSingle-Cell Transcriptomics Applied to Embryonic Stem Cells. Cell 161,1187-1201 (2015). Bose, S. et al. Scalable microfluidics for single-cellRNA printing and sequencing. Genome Biology 1-16 (2015).doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0684-3.

Microbial identities and/or abundances, or specific changes inmicrobiome or microbiota discussed herein can be detected using variousmethods, including, without limitation, quantitative PCR orhigh-throughput sequencing methods which detect over- andunder-represented genes in the total bacterial population (e.g.,454-sequencing for community analysis; screening of microbial 16Sribosomal RNAs (16S rRNA), etc.), or transcriptomic or proteomic studiesthat identify lost or gained microbial transcripts or proteins withintotal bacterial populations. See, e.g., U.S. Patent Publication No.2010/0074872; Eckburg et al., Science, 2005, 308:1635-8; Costello etal., Science, 2009, 326:1694-7; Orrice et al., Science, 2009,324:1190-2; Li et al., Nature, 2010, 464: 59-65; Bjursell et al.,Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2006, 281:36269-36279; Mahowald et al.,PNAS, 2009, 14:5859-5864; Wikoff et al., PNAS, 2009, 10:3698-3703.

The composition/identifies and abundance of the established microbiotacan be studied by sequencing the 16S ribosomal RNA (or 16S rRNA) gene ofa sample. 16S rRNA is a component of the 30S small subunit ofprokaryotic ribosomes.

In additional embodiments, the determining step involves screeningbacterial 16S rRNA genes using PCR.

The DNA library may be a genomic DNA or metagenomic library. Ametagenomic library is a collection of the genomic DNAs of a mixture oforganisms, such as a mixture of microbes.

The present method may or may not comprise a step of processing thematrix by chemical or enzymatic means after or before any suitable step,including, but not limited to, cell lysis, addition of a detergent orsurfactant, addition of protease, addition of RNase, alcoholprecipitation (e.g., ethanol precipitation, or isopropanolprecipitation), salt precipitation, organic extraction (e.g.,phenol-chloroform extraction), solid phase extraction, silica gelmembrane extraction, CsCl gradient purification.

Photocleavable linkers may be cleaved by UV light. Photocleavablelinkers may be a photocleavable oligonucleotide. Photocleavable linkersmay be o-nitrobenzyl derivatives (Zhao et al. 2012: o-nitrobenzylalcohol derivatives). U.S. Patent Publication No. 20080227742.

Sequencing

DNA may be amplified via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) before beingsequenced.

The present method may comprise a step of analyzing DNA or RNA bysequencing or by microarray analysis. It should be appreciated that anysuitable means of determining DNA sequence may be used in the presentmethod.

The DNA may be sequenced using vector-based primers; or a specific geneis sought by using specific primers. PCR and sequencing techniques arewell known in the art; reagents and equipment are readily availablecommercially.

Non-limiting examples of sequencing methods include Sanger sequencing orchain termination sequencing, Maxam-Gilbert sequencing, capillary arrayDNA sequencing, thermal cycle sequencing (Sears et al., Biotechniques,13:626-633 (1992)), solid-phase sequencing (Zimmerman et al., MethodsMol. Cell Biol., 3:39-42 (1992)), sequencing with mass spectrometry suchas matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight massspectrometry (MALDI-TOF/MS; Fu et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 16:381-384(1998)), and sequencing by hybridization (Chee et al., Science,274:610-614 (1996); Drmanac et al., Science, 260:1649-1652 (1993);Drmanac et al., Nat. Biotechnol., 16:54-58 (1998)), NGS (next-generationsequencing) (Chen et al., Genome Res. 18:1143-1149 (2008); Srivatsan etal. PloS Genet. 4:e1000139 (2008)), Polony sequencing (Porreca et al.,Curr. Protoc. Mol. Biol. Chp. 7; 7.8 (2006), ion semiconductorsequencing (Elliott et al., J. Biomol Tech. 1:24-30 (2010), DNA nanoballsequencing (Kaji et al., Chem Soc Rev 39:948-56 (2010), single-moleculereal-time sequencing (Flusberg et al., Nat. Methods 6:461-5 (2010),sequencing by synthesis (e.g., Illumina/Solexa sequencing), sequencingby ligation, sequencing by hybridization, nanopore DNA sequencing(Wanunu, Phys Life Rev 9:125-58 (2012), massively Parallel SignatureSequencing (MPSS); pyro sequencing, SOLiD sequencing (McKeman et al.2009 Genome Res 19:1527-1541; Shearer et al. 2010 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA107:21104-21109); shortgun sequencing; Heliscope single moleculesequencing; single molecule real time (SMRT) sequencing. U.S. PatentPublication No. 20140329705.

High-throughput sequencing, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and/ordeep-sequencing technologies include, but are not limited to,Illumina/Solex sequencing technology (Bentley et al. 2008 Nature456:53-59), Roche/454 (Margulies et al. 2005 Nature 437:376-380), Pacbio(Flusberg et al. 2010 Nature methods 7:461-465; Korlach et al. 2010Methods in enzymology 472:431-455; Schadt et al. 2010 Nature reviews.Genetics 11:647-657; Schadt et al. 2010 Human molecular genetics19:R227-240; Eid et al. 2009 Science 323:133-138; Imelfort and Edwards,2009 Briefings in bioinformatics 10:609-618), Ion Torrent (Rothberg etal. 2011 Nature 475:348-352)) and more. For example, Polony technologyutilizes a single step to generate billions of “distinct clones” forsequencing. As another example, ion-sensitive field-effect transistor(ISFET) sequencing technology provides a non-optically based sequencingtechnique. U.S. Patent Publication No. 20140329712.

Several methods of DNA analysis are encompassed in the presentdisclosure. As used herein “deep sequencing” indicates that the depth ofthe process is many times larger than the length of the sequence understudy. Deep sequencing is encompassed in next generation sequencingmethods which include but are not limited to single molecule realtimesequencing (Pacific Bio), Ion semiconductor (Ion torrent sequencing),Pyrosequencmg (454), Sequencing by synthesis (lilumina), Sequencing byligations (SOLID sequencing) and Chain termination (Sanger sequencing).

Sequencing reads may be first subjected to quality control to identifyoverrepresented sequences and low-quality ends. The start and/or end ofa read may or may not be trimmed. Sequences mapping to the genome may beremoved and excluded from further analysis. As used herein, the term“read” refers to the sequence of a DNA fragment obtained aftersequencing. In certain embodiments, the reads are paired-end reads,where the DNA fragment is sequenced from both ends of the molecule.

The level of the DNA or RNA (e.g., mRNA) molecules may bedetermined/detected using routine methods known to those of ordinaryskill in the art. The level of the nucleic acid molecule may bedetermined/detected by nucleic acid hybridization using a nucleic acidprobe, or by nucleic acid amplification using one or more nucleic acidprimers.

Nucleic acid hybridization can be performed using Southern blots,Northern blots, nucleic acid microarrays, etc.

Nucleic acid microarray technology, which is also known as DNA chiptechnology, gene chip technology, and solid-phase nucleic acid arraytechnology, may be based on, but not limited to, obtaining an array ofidentified nucleic acid probes on a fixed substrate, labeling targetmolecules with reporter molecules (e.g., radioactive, chemiluminescent,or fluorescent tags such as fluorescein, Cye3-dUTP, or Cye5-dUTP, etc.),hybridizing target nucleic acids to the probes, and evaluatingtarget-probe hybridization. Jackson et al. (1996) Nature Biotechnology,14: 1685-1691. Chee et al. (1995) Science, 274: 610-613.

The sensitivity of the assays may be enhanced through use of a nucleicacid amplification system that multiplies the target nucleic acid beingdetected.

Nucleic acid amplification assays include, but are not limited to, thepolymerase chain reaction (PCR), reverse transcription polymerase chainreaction (RT-PCR), real-time RT-PCR, quantitative RT-PCR, etc.

Measuring or detecting the amount or level of mRNA in a sample can beperformed in any manner known to one skilled in the art and suchtechniques for measuring or detecting the level of an mRNA are wellknown and can be readily employed. A variety of methods for detectingmRNAs have been described and may include, Northern blotting,microarrays, real-time PCR, RT-PCR, targeted RT-PCR, in situhybridization, deep-sequencing, single-molecule direct RNA sequencing(RNAseq), bioluminescent methods, bioluminescent protein reassembly,BRET (bioluminescence resonance energy transfer)-based methods,fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Ramanspectroscopy (Cissell, K. A. and Deo, S. K. (2009) Anal. Bioanal. Chem.,394:1109-1116).

The methods of the present invention may include the step of reversetranscribing RNA when assaying the level or amount of an mRNA.

Sequencing reads (e.g., the quality-corrected reads) may be mapped ontothe genome of the microbe using any alignment algorithms known in theart. Non-limiting examples of such mapping algorithms include Bowtie;Bowtie2 (Langmead et al. 2009; Langmead et al., Fast gapped-readalignment with Bowtie 2. Nature methods 9(4), 357-9 (2012);Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA, see, Li et al: Fast and accurate long-readalignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform. Bioinformatics, 26(5), 589-95(2010)); SOAP2 (Li et al., SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for shortread alignment. Bioinformatics, 25(15), 1966-7 (2009)); GATK; SMRA;PINDEL; SNAP (Zaharia et al., Faster and More Accurate SequenceAlignment with SNAP, arXiv:1111.5572 (2011)]; TMAP1-4; SMALT; and Masai(Siragusa et al., Fast and sensitive read mapping with approximate seedsand multiple backtracking. CoRR abs/1208.4238 (2012)). A recent overviewof the alignment algorithms can be found in Li et al., A survey ofsequence alignment algorithms for next-generation sequencing. Briefingsin Bioinformatics 2010, 11(5), 473-483. U.S. Patent Publication Nos.20140214334, 20140108323 and 20140315726.

Mathematical algorithms that can be used for alignment also include, thealgorithm of Myers and Miller (1988) CABIOS 4:11-17; the local alignmentalgorithm of Smith et al. (1981) Adv. Appl. Math. 2:482; the globalalignment algorithm of Needleman and Wunsch (1970) J. Mol. Biol.48:443-453; the search-for-local alignment method of Pearson and Lipman(1988) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 85:2444-2448; the algorithm of Karlin andAltschul (1990) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 872264, modified as in Karlinand Altschul (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90:5873-5877. Computerimplementations of these mathematical algorithms can be utilized forcomparison of sequences to determine optimum alignment. Suchimplementations include, but are not limited to: CLUSTAL in the PC/Geneprogram (available from Intelligenetics, Mountain View, Calif.); theALIGN program (Version 2.0) and GAP, BESTFIT, BLAST, FASTA, and TFASTAin the GCG Wisconsin Genetics Software Package, Version 10 (availablefrom Accelrys Inc., 9685 Scranton Road, San Diego, Calif., USA).Alignments using these programs can be performed using the defaultparameters. The CLUSTAL program is well described by Higgins et al.(1988) Gene 73:237-244 (1988); Higgins et al. (1989) CABIOS 5:151-153;Corpet et al. (1988) Nucleic Acids Res. 16:10881-90; Huang et al. (1992)CABIOS 8:155-65; and Pearson et al. (1994) Meth. Mol. Biol. 24:307-331.The ALIGN program is based on the algorithm of Myers and Miller (1988)supra. A PAM120 weight residue table, a gap length penalty of 12, and agap penalty of 4 can be used with the ALIGN program when comparing aminoacid sequences. The BLAST programs of Altschul et al. (1990) J. Mol.Biol. 215:403 are based on the algorithm of Karlin and Altschul (1990)supra. To obtain gapped alignments for comparison purposes, Gapped BLAST(in BLAST 2.0) can be utilized as described in Altschul et al. (1997)Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389. Alternatively, PSI-BLAST (in BLAST 2.0) canbe used to perform an iterated search that detects distant relationshipsbetween molecules. See Altschul et al. (1997) supra. In anotherembodiment, GSNAP (Thomas D. Wu, Serban Nacu “Fast and SNP-tolerantdetection of complex variants and splicing in short reads.Bioinformatics. 2010 Apr. 1; 26(7):873-81. 2010) can also be used.

Algorithms and parameters for alignment can be adjusted depending on thetype of bacteria selected, the type of target sequence beingcharacterized, etc.

Mapped reads may be post-processed by removing PCR duplicates (multiple,identical reads), etc.

Organisms

The organism may be a eukaryotic organism, including human and non-humaneukaryotic organisms. The organism may be a multicellular eukaryoticorganism. The organism may be an arthropod such as an insect. Theorganism also may be a plant or a fungus. The organism may beprokaryotic.

In one embodiment, the cell is a mammalian cell, such as a human cell.Human cells may include human embryonic kidney cells (e.g., HEK293Tcells), human dermal fibroblasts, human cancer cells, etc.

In another embodiment, the cell is a yeast cell. The organism may be ayeast. In yet another embodiment, the cell is a bacterial cell. Theorganism may be bacteria.

Molecular Biology

In accordance with the present invention, there may be numerous toolsand techniques within the skill of the art, such as those commonly usedin molecular immunology, cellular immunology, pharmacology, andmicrobiology. See, e.g., Sambrook et al. (2001) Molecular Cloning: ALaboratory Manual. 3rd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press: ColdSpring Harbor, N.Y.; Ausubel et al. eds. (2005) Current Protocols inMolecular Biology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.; Bonifacinoet al. eds. (2005) Current Protocols in Cell Biology. John Wiley andSons, Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.; Coligan et al. eds. (2005) Current Protocolsin Immunology, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.; Coico et al.eds. (2005) Current Protocols in Microbiology, John Wiley and Sons,Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.; Coligan et al. eds. (2005) Current Protocols inProtein Science, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.; and Enna etal. eds. (2005) Current Protocols in Pharmacology, John Wiley and Sons,Inc.: Hoboken, N.J.

The terms used in this specification generally have their ordinarymeanings in the art, within the context of this invention and thespecific context where each term is used. Certain terms are discussedbelow, or elsewhere in the specification, to provide additional guidanceto the practitioner in describing the methods of the invention and howto use them. Moreover, it will be appreciated that the same thing can besaid in more than one way. Consequently, alternative language andsynonyms may be used for any one or more of the terms discussed herein,nor is any special significance to be placed upon whether or not a termis elaborated or discussed herein. Synonyms for certain terms areprovided. A recital of one or more synonyms does not exclude the use ofthe other synonyms. The use of examples anywhere in the specification,including examples of any terms discussed herein, is illustrative only,and in no way limits the scope and meaning of the invention or anyexemplified term. Likewise, the invention is not limited to itspreferred embodiments.

As used herein, the term “isolated” and the like means that thereferenced material is free of components found in the naturalenvironment in which the material is normally found. In particular,isolated biological material is free of cellular components. In the caseof nucleic acid molecules, an isolated nucleic acid includes a PCRproduct, an isolated mRNA, a cDNA, an isolated genomic DNA, or arestriction fragment. In another embodiment, an isolated nucleic acid ispreferably excised from the chromosome in which it may be found.Isolated nucleic acid molecules can be inserted into plasmids, cosmids,artificial chromosomes, and the like. Thus, in a specific embodiment, arecombinant nucleic acid is an isolated nucleic acid. An isolatedprotein may be associated with other proteins or nucleic acids, or both,with which it associates in the cell, or with cellular membranes if itis a membrane-associated protein. An isolated material may be, but neednot be, purified.

The term “purified” and the like as used herein refers to material thathas been isolated under conditions that reduce or eliminate unrelatedmaterials, i.e., contaminants. For example, a purified protein ispreferably substantially free of other proteins or nucleic acids withwhich it is associated in a cell; a purified nucleic acid molecule ispreferably substantially free of proteins or other unrelated nucleicacid molecules with which it can be found within a cell. As used herein,the term “substantially free” is used operationally, in the context ofanalytical testing of the material. Preferably, purified materialsubstantially free of contaminants is at least 50% pure; morepreferably, at least 90% pure, and more preferably still at least 99%pure. Purity can be evaluated by chromatography, gel electrophoresis,immunoassay, composition analysis, biological assay, and other methodsknown in the art.

The terms “expression profile” or “gene expression profile” refers toany description or measurement of one or more of the genes that areexpressed by a cell, tissue, or organism under or in response to aparticular condition. Expression profiles can identify genes that areup-regulated, down-regulated, or unaffected under particular conditions.Gene expression can be detected at the nucleic acid level or at theprotein level. The expression profiling at the nucleic acid level can beaccomplished using any available technology to measure gene transcriptlevels. For example, the method could employ in situ hybridization,Northern hybridization or hybridization to a nucleic acid microarray,such as an oligonucleotide microarray, or a cDNA microarray.Alternatively, the method could employ reverse transcriptase-polymerasechain reaction (RT-PCR) such as fluorescent dye-based quantitative realtime PCR (TaqMan® PCR). In the Examples section provided below, nucleicacid expression profiles were obtained using Affymetrix GeneChip®oligonucleotide microarrays. The expression profiling at the proteinlevel can be accomplished using any available technology to measureprotein levels, e.g., using peptide-specific capture agent arrays.

The terms “gene signature” and “signature genes” will be usedinterchangeably herein and mean the particular transcripts that havebeen found to be differentially expressed in some prostate cancerpatients.

The terms “gene”, “gene transcript”, and “transcript” are usedinterchangeably in the application. The term “gene”, also called a“structural gene” means a DNA sequence that codes for or corresponds toa particular sequence of amino acids which comprise all or part of oneor more proteins or enzymes, and may or may not include regulatory DNAsequences, such as promoter sequences, which determine for example theconditions under which the gene is expressed. Some genes, which are notstructural genes, may be transcribed from DNA to RNA, but are nottranslated into an amino acid sequence. Other genes may function asregulators of structural genes or as regulators of DNA transcription.“Transcript” or “gene transcript” is a sequence of RNA produced bytranscription of a particular gene. Thus, the expression of the gene canbe measured via the transcript.

The term “genomic DNA” as used herein means all DNA from a subjectincluding coding and non-coding DNA, and DNA contained in introns andexons.

The term “nucleic acid hybridization” refers to anti-parallel hydrogenbonding between two single-stranded nucleic acids, in which A pairs withT (or U if an RNA nucleic acid) and C pairs with G. Nucleic acidmolecules are “hybridizable” to each other when at least one strand ofone nucleic acid molecule can form hydrogen bonds with the complementarybases of another nucleic acid molecule under defined stringencyconditions. Stringency of hybridization is determined, e.g., by (i) thetemperature at which hybridization and/or washing is performed, and (ii)the ionic strength and (iii) concentration of denaturants such asformamide of the hybridization and washing solutions, as well as otherparameters. Hybridization requires that the two strands containsubstantially complementary sequences. Depending on the stringency ofhybridization, however, some degree of mismatches may be tolerated.Under “low stringency” conditions, a greater percentage of mismatchesare tolerable (i.e., will not prevent formation of an anti-parallelhybrid).

The terms “vector”, “cloning vector” and “expression vector” mean thevehicle by which a DNA or RNA sequence (e.g. a foreign gene) can beintroduced into a host cell, so as to transform the host and promoteexpression (e.g. transcription and translation) of the introducedsequence. Vectors include, but are not limited to, plasmids, phages, andviruses.

Vectors typically comprise the DNA of a transmissible agent, into whichforeign DNA is inserted. A common way to insert one segment of DNA intoanother segment of DNA involves the use of enzymes called restrictionenzymes that cleave DNA at specific sites (specific groups ofnucleotides) called restriction sites. A “cassette” refers to a DNAcoding sequence or segment of DNA which codes for an expression productthat can be inserted into a vector at defined restriction sites. Thecassette restriction sites are designed to ensure insertion of thecassette in the proper reading frame. Generally, foreign DNA is insertedat one or more restriction sites of the vector DNA, and then is carriedby the vector into a host cell along with the transmissible vector DNA.A segment or sequence of DNA having inserted or added DNA, such as anexpression vector, can also be called a “DNA construct” or “geneconstruct.” A common type of vector is a “plasmid”, which generally is aself-contained molecule of double-stranded DNA, usually of bacterialorigin, that can readily accept additional (foreign) DNA and which canreadily introduced into a suitable host cell. A plasmid vector oftencontains coding DNA and promoter DNA and has one or more restrictionsites suitable for inserting foreign DNA. Coding DNA is a DNA sequencethat encodes a particular amino acid sequence for a particular proteinor enzyme. Promoter DNA is a DNA sequence which initiates, regulates, orotherwise mediates or controls the expression of the coding DNA.Promoter DNA and coding DNA may be from the same gene or from differentgenes, and may be from the same or different organisms. A large numberof vectors, including plasmid and fungal vectors, have been describedfor replication and/or expression in a variety of eukaryotic andprokaryotic hosts. Non-limiting examples include pKK plasmids(Clonetech), pUC plasmids, pET plasmids (Novagen, Inc., Madison, Wis.),pRSET or pREP plasmids (Invitrogen, San Diego, Calif.), or pMAL plasmids(New England Biolabs, Beverly, Mass.), and many appropriate host cells,using methods disclosed or cited herein or otherwise known to thoseskilled in the relevant art. Recombinant cloning vectors will ofteninclude one or more replication systems for cloning or expression, oneor more markers for selection in the host, e.g. antibiotic resistance,and one or more expression cassettes.

A “polynucleotide” or “nucleotide sequence” is a series of nucleotidebases (also called “nucleotides”) in a nucleic acid, such as DNA andRNA, and means any chain of two or more nucleotides. A nucleotidesequence typically carries genetic information, including theinformation used by cellular machinery to make proteins and enzymes.These terms include double or single stranded genomic and cDNA, RNA, anysynthetic and genetically manipulated polynucleotide, and both sense andanti-sense polynucleotide. This includes single- and double-strandedmolecules, i.e., DNA-DNA, DNA-RNA and RNA-RNA hybrids, as well as“protein nucleic acids” (PNA) formed by conjugating bases to an aminoacid backbone. This also includes nucleic acids containing modifiedbases, for example thio-uracil, thio-guanine and fluoro-uracil.

“Nucleic acid” refers to deoxyribonucleotides or ribonucleotides andpolymers thereof in either single- or double-stranded form. The nucleicacids herein may be flanked by natural regulatory (expression control)sequences, or may be associated with heterologous sequences, includingpromoters, internal ribosome entry sites (IRES) and other ribosomebinding site sequences, enhancers, response elements, suppressors,signal sequences, polyadenylation sequences, introns, 5′- and3′-non-coding regions, and the like. The term encompasses nucleic acidscontaining known nucleotide analogs or modified backbone residues orlinkages, which are synthetic, naturally occurring, and non-naturallyoccurring, which have similar binding properties as the referencenucleic acid, and which are metabolized in a manner similar to thereference nucleotides. The nucleic acids may also be modified by manymeans known in the art.

Non-limiting examples of such modifications include methylation, “caps”,substitution of one or more of the naturally occurring nucleotides withan analog, and internucleotide modifications such as, for example, thosewith uncharged linkages (e.g., methyl phosphonates, phosphotriesters,phosphoroamidates, and carbamates) and with charged linkages (e.g.,phosphorothioates, and phosphorodithioates). Polynucleotides may containone or more additional covalently linked moieties, such as, for example,proteins (e.g., nucleases, toxins, antibodies, signal peptides, andpoly-L-lysine), intercalators (e.g., acridine, and psoralen), chelators(e.g., metals, radioactive metals, iron, and oxidative metals), andalkylators. The polynucleotides may be derivatized by formation of amethyl or ethyl phosphotriester or an alkyl phosphoramidate linkage.Modifications of the ribose-phosphate backbone may be done to facilitatethe addition of labels, or to increase the stability and half-life ofsuch molecules in physiological environments. Nucleic acid analogs canfind use in the methods of the invention as well as mixtures ofnaturally occurring nucleic acids and analogs. Furthermore, thepolynucleotides herein may also be modified with a label capable ofproviding a detectable signal, either directly or indirectly. Exemplarylabels include radioisotopes, fluorescent molecules, and biotin.

The term “polypeptide” as used herein means a compound of two or moreamino acids linked by a peptide bond. “Polypeptide” is used hereininterchangeably with the term “protein.”

The term “about” or “approximately” means within an acceptable errorrange for the particular value as determined by one of ordinary skill inthe art, which will depend in part on how the value is measured ordetermined, i.e., the limitations of the measurement system, i.e., thedegree of precision required for a particular purpose, such as apharmaceutical formulation. For example, “about” can mean within 1 ormore than 1 standard deviations, per the practice in the art.Alternatively, “about” can mean a range of up to 20%, preferably up to10%, more preferably up to 5%, and more preferably still up to 1% of agiven value. Alternatively, particularly with respect to biologicalsystems or processes, the term can mean within an order of magnitude,preferably within 5-fold, and more preferably within 2-fold, of a value.Where particular values are described in the application and claims,unless otherwise stated, the term “about” meaning within an acceptableerror range for the particular value should be assumed.

Tissue Fixation/Immobilization of Sample

In one embodiment, a tissue section is fixed and embedded in a gelmatrix by in situ perfusion and acrylamide polymerization. Other methodsof tissue fixation include using methyl methacrylate and glycolmethacrylate, also referred to as Technovit®(https://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/technical/datasheet/14654_immunohistochemistry.aspx,retrieved, Mar. 26, 2019; see also, Hasegawa et al. Preservation ofthree-dimensional spatial structure in the gut microbiome,https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/08/11/175224.full.pdf,retrieved, Mar. 26, 2019). Tissues can also be fixed using a combinationof sodium acrylate, a monomer used to produce superabsorbent materials,along with the comonomer acrylamide and the cross-linkerN—N′-methylenebisacrylamide such as that used with expansion microscopy.Chen et al. Expansion Microscopy Science 347 (6221):543-548 (2015).Other techniques for tissue fixation, include nanoporoushydrogel-fixation, also referred to as CLARITY. Chung et al. Structuraland molecular interrogation of intact biological systems. Nature497:332-337 (2013).

Metgenomic Plot Sampling by Sequencing (MaP-Seq)

MaP-seq was applied to the mouse colonic microbiome. The methods andsystems of the present invention could be applied to any structural,anatomic system, including, but not limited to the brain (centralnervous system), the pulmonary system (the lungs, bronchi and alveoli),the genitouringary tract, including, but not limited to the kidneys,ureters, bladder, urethra, ovaries, testicles, prostate, penis andvagina, the peripheral vascular and cardiovascular systems, including,but not limited to the arteries (coronary, pulmonary, aorta, femoral,carotid, basilar), veins (pulmonary, vena cava, femoral), heart (leftventricle, right ventricle, left atrium, right atrium), thegastrointestinal system such as the esophagus, stomach (including, butnot limited to the fundus and pyloric valve), the liver, gall balder,small intestines (ileum and jejunum), large intestines (colon), the eyeand the skin. The methods and systems of the present invention could beapplied to any mammalian or non-mammalian species, including, but notlimited to, rats, mice, canines, felines, cows, sheep, horses, goats,birds, humans (cadaver material), reptiles and fish.

The methods and systems of the present invention could also be appliedto any three-dimensional structure such as a solid tumor of any organ,including, but not limited to, bladder, bone, colon, esophagus, salivaryglands, kidney, lung, Central Nervous System, Neuroendocrine System,ovaries, prostate, testicles, soft tissue and skin.

The methods and systems of the present invention could also be appliedto biofilms.

We generated and characterized cell clusters (˜30 μm median diameter)from a segment of the distal colon (including both epithelium anddigesta) of a mouse fed a plant-polysaccharide diet, yielding 1,406clusters passing strict quality filtering across two technicalreplicates (FIG. 2a , FIG. 3a (Methods). Other cell cluster sizes areencompassed by the methods and systems of the invention, including, ˜10μm, ˜20 μm, ˜25 μm, ˜35 μm, ˜40 μm, ˜50 μm, ˜60 μm, ˜70 μm, ˜80 μm, ˜90μm or ˜100 μm. Additional sizes range from ˜100 μm to ˜500 μm. 236 totalOTUs were identified with their prevalence across clusters highlycorrelating to bulk abundance obtained by standard 16S sequencing,implying that more abundant taxa are also physically dispersed over morespace (FIG. 2b , Pearson correlation r=0.90). The spatial distributionof taxa across clusters appeared mixed (median 9 OTUs per cluster), butsome clusters contained only a few OTUs indicating spatial aggregationor clumping in a fraction of the community (FIG. 2c ). Moreover, thisobserved distribution of OTUs per cluster was significantly lower thanclusters of the same size generated from homogenized fecal bacteria,which serve as a control for a well-mixed community (Mann-Whitney Utest, p<10⁻²⁶). These results suggest that at the scale of tens ofmicrons, individual taxa in the gut microbiome are neither fully mixednor highly structured, but rather are heterogeneously distributed inmixed patches.

We next explored whether these observed spatial distributions reflectspecific associations between individual bacterial taxa that may resultfrom processes such as positive or negative interspecies interactions(e.g., cooperative metabolism (see Rakoff-Nahoum, S., Coyne, M. J. &Comstock, L. E. An Ecological Network of Polysaccharide Utilizationamong Human Intestinal Symbionts. Current Biology 24, 40-49 (2014));contact-dependent killing (see Wexler, A. G. et al. (2016))) or localhabitat filtering (see Nagata, Y., Takada, T., Nagata, Y., Kado, S. &Kushiro, A. (2017). Across abundant and prevalent OTUs (>2% abundancein >10% of clusters, n=24), we assessed whether their pairwiseco-occurrences were detected more or less frequently than expected incomparison to a null model of independent, random assortment of OTUs(Methods, Fisher's exact test, p<0.05, FDR=0.05). Application of thisstrategy to the cluster mixing control experiment confirmed our abilityto accurately detect positive and negative spatial associations that areexpected (FIG. 4f ). Out of 276 possible pairwise combinations of taxain the murine colon, we detected 75 statistically significantassociations between diverse taxa, the majority of which were positive(72/75) but relatively weak in magnitude (FIG. 2d , FIG. 3b-c ). Thestrongest co-occurrence was a positive association between abundantBacteroidaceae and Porphyromonadaceae taxa from the Bacteroidales order(odds ratio 3.9, p<10⁻²³). In addition, a small number of negativeassociations were observed, which could reflect antagonistic processessuch as production of inhibitory factors or competitive exclusion.

The number of detected associations increased as more of the dataset issampled, implying that detection of weaker relationships between lessabundant taxa can be improved by analyzing more clusters FIG. 3d ).Nonetheless, the detected associations showed good correspondencebetween technical replicates FIG. 3e ). Importantly, despite highinter-host microbiome variability, the nature of the associations (i.e.,sign, magnitude, and number) and some strong associations could berecapitulated in MaP-seq profiling of a second co-housed mouse, such asthe co-occurrence of Bacteroidales taxa. This characterization impliesthat individual taxa in the colon are organized in distinct andreproducible spatial relationships.

To further investigate how the spatial organization of the microbiota isinfluenced by their environmental context, we applied spatialmetagenomics along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The mammalian GItract is composed of distinct anatomical regions with different pHlevels, oxygen concentrations, host-derived antimicrobials and transittimes that together influence the local microbiota assemblage (seeDonaldson, G. P., Lee, S. M. & Mazmanian, S. K. Gut biogeography of thebacterial microbiota. 1-13 (2015). doi:10.1038/nrmicro3552). We firstperformed an adapted 16S community profiling approach along the murineGI tract that could also infer absolute OTU abundances (see Ji, B. W. etal. Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics and noise in absolute microbiotaabundances using replicate sampling. biorxiv.org doi:10.1101/310649(2018)) FIG. 5a (Methods). This new mouse cohort (2 co-housed mice)shared only ˜20% of OTUs with the previous group, illustrating thesignificant inter-animal microbiome heterogeneity inherent to suchstudies. This further highlights challenges for other spatial profilingtechniques such as 16S FISH imaging where probes must be designed inadvance, in comparison to MaP-seq, which can be applied to measurediverse bacteria without advance specification. Analysis of microbiotain absolute abundance across the intestine revealed increased bacterialdensity (˜16 fold higher) and species richness in the large intestinecompared to the small intestine, with the cecum harboring the highestbacterial density and number of OTUs. We chose three separate GI regionsthat exhibited distinct microbiota assemblages for characterization byMaP-seq: the ileum (si6), cecum (cec) and distal colon (co2). Given thehigh degree of species mixing previously observed at ˜30 μm, we usedsmaller sized clusters (˜20 μm median diameter) to capturehigher-resolution spatial associations. Ranges of clusters can include,1, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000μm.

The distribution of OTUs per cluster was compared with the spatialorganization of taxa in the three regions FIG. 5 a. ˜20 μm clustersdisplayed lower numbers of OTUs per cluster than −30 μm clusters (median3-4 OTUs per cluster). The ileum possessed significantly fewer OTUs percluster than the cecum or distal colon (Mann-Whitney U test, p<10⁻¹⁸ andp<10⁻¹⁴ respectively). By comparison, the cecum and colon displayedsimilar OTU distributions, while the cecum harbored more clusters with alarge number of OTUs.

To understand how the local spatial organization of the microbiome mayvary within and across different gut compartments, we visualized thecell clusters data across the three gut regions using t-distributedStochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE, utilizing Bray-Curtis distance ofOTU relative abundance within clusters), as well as the abundance ofprevalent bacterial families in cell clusters across the resultingmanifold FIG. 5c (Methods, FIG. 3c ). While some cell clusters from theileum, cecum and distal colon separately projected into distinct groups,other clusters from each site projected more broadly across themanifold. Interestingly, a subset of cell clusters from the cecumprojected into a dense group and are compositionally dominated byLachnospiraceae, which were generally not present in clusters from theileum or distal colon. When cell clusters from a second co-housed mousewere added to the tSNE analysis, they were distributed in a similarmanner to clusters from the first mouse across the manifold anddisplayed a similar cecum-specific Lachnospiraceae group.

Next, we explored whether these different spatial distributions reflectdistinct spatial co-associations between taxa at each GI site (FIG. 5d). The ileum harbored a network of positive and negative associationsbetween the few taxa present. On the other hand, the cecum exhibited adense network of positively co-associated taxa, primarily betweenabundant Lachnospiraceae, Ruminococcaceae, and Porphyromonadaceae.Similar to the cecum, the distal colon displayed only positiveassociations, including strong groupings between three abundantPorphyromonadaceae (OTUs 5,8,9). Profiling the colon at an even smallersize-scale (˜7 μm) confirmed strong positive associations between thesethree taxa FIG. 6, indicating that this spatial clustering occursrobustly at short, local length-scales.

We further investigated whether MaP-seq could identify individual taxawith unique or altered spatial patterns. While the cecum harbored thedensest community and the highest degree of species mixing of the threesites FIG. 5a-b , we hypothesized that specific taxa may self-aggregateto a higher degree than others, for example by uniquely utilizing aspecific metabolite (see Nagara, Y., Takada, T., Nagata, Y., Kado, S. &Kushiro, A. (2017). Assessing the aggregation of abundant taxa revealeda Lachnospiraceae (OTU 7; putatively of the genus Dorea, 60% confidenceby RDP) that clustered two-fold greater than the average clusteringmetric value of all taxa (FIG. 7a ). To validate this finding with anorthogonal approach, we performed 16S FISH on GI sections from the samemurine sample using previously validated probes that targetedLachnospiraceae (Erec482) as well as two other abundant taxa for whichFISH probes were available but were predicted not to cluster at asimilar degree (Coriobacteriaceae: Ato291, Lactobacillaceae: Lab148;Methods). Strikingly, imaging confirmed that while Lachnospiraceae weredistributed across the cecum, they also formed large clusteredaggregates that appeared to exclude other bacteria FIGS. 7-8.Importantly, this result highlights that individual taxa in the gut canorganize in unique and spatially varying micron-scale structures thatcan be revealed by using MaP-seq.

Having established the local spatial organization across the GI tract ofmice fed a standard plant-polysaccharide diet, we next sought tounderstand the extent to which diet might influence spatial structuring.Diet is known to play a major role in shaping the variation of gutmicrobiota across individuals (see Carmody, R. N. et al. Diet DominatesHost Genotype in Shaping the Murine Gut Microbiota. Cell Host & Microbe17, 72-84 (2015); Sonnenburg, E. D. et al. Diet-induced extinctions inthe gut microbiota compound over generations. Nature 529, 212-215(2016)). While diet shifts can rapidly alter microbiota compositionwithin days (see David, L. A. et al. Diet rapidly and reproduciblyalters the human gut microbiome. Nature 505, 559-563 (2014)), thedetailed ecological mechanisms underlying these community-scale changesare not well understood. We thus took co-housed mice and split them intotwo cohorts where one was maintained on the plant-polysaccharide baseddiet (LF, same as in the previous cohorts) and one was switched to ahigh fat, high sugar diet (HF, commonly utilized in dietary-inducedobesity studies) to assess microbiota changes associated with these twodiets representing distinct macronutrient profiles. After 10 days on thetwo diets, a considerable loss of species richness in the cecum andcolon was observed in HF-fed mice compared to LF-fed mice FIG. 9.

To determine if a dietary shift could alter the spatial organization ofthe microbiota, which could contribute to the observed loss of speciesdiversity, we performed MaP-seq on distal colon samples from mice fedthe LF or HF diet. We found that the distribution of unique OTUs per ˜20μm cluster was similar between both diets FIG. 9b (top). This impliesthat species distributions at the local ˜20 μm scale is governed byfactors that are either common to or not affected by the two diets, forexample spatial autocorrelation of bacterial growth. However, assessingdiversity at the higher taxonomic family-rank revealed significantlyhigher diversity in HF clusters (Mann-Whitney U test, p<10⁻²², FIG. 9b ,bottom, indicating that while both LF and HF clusters contained similarnumbers of OTUs, taxa within individual HF clusters were morephylogenetically diverse. Furthermore, positive co-associations weremore frequently observed between diverse taxa in HF diet than in LFdiet, which in contrast had co-associations mostly betweenPorphyromonadaceae or Lachnospiraceae.

Next, to compare the taxa spatial organization across the two diets, wevisualized clusters using tSNE as before FIG. 9d , FIG. 10. Cellclusters from the two diets each formed highly distinct groups withminimal overlap, indicating that the spatial organization in the distalcolon was significantly altered by the dietary shift. Despite thisoverall separation, we observed examples of cluster configurations thatwere shared between the two diets. For example, HF clusters wereobserved in a predominantly LF region marked by high abundance of aPorphyromondaceae taxa (OTU 5), and LF clusters were observed in apredominantly HF region marked by high abundance of a Bacteroidaceaetaxa (OTU 6) FIG. 10 d.

The following are examples of the present invention and are not to beconstrued as limiting.

EXAMPLES Example 1 Spatial Metagenomic Characterization of MicrobialBiogeography in the Gut

Spatial structuring promotes biodiversity and is important to themaintenance of natural ecological systems^(1,2). Many microbialcommunities, including the mammalian gut microbiome, display intricatespatial organization³⁻⁹. Mapping spatial distributions of bacterialspecies enables the detailed delineation of fundamental ecologicalprocesses and interactions that underlie community-wide behaviors¹⁰⁻¹².However, current approaches have a limited capacity to measure thespatial organization of natural microbiomes with hundreds ofspecies¹³⁻¹⁷. Here, we describe spatial metagenomics, a framework todissect the organization of a microbiome at micron-scale spatialresolution and metagenomic depth through nucleic acid “plot sampling”.Intact microbiome samples are immobilized within a gel matrix andsubjected to cryo-fracturing to generate clusters of co-localized cells,and the identities and abundances of taxa present in these clusters aredetermined via droplet-based encapsulation and deep sequencing. Analysisof thousands of microbiome clusters from the mouse intestine acrossthree distinct regions revealed heterogeneous microbial distributionswith positive and negative co-associations between specific taxa. Whilethe murine intestinal microbiome mostly exhibited regionally distinctspatial organizations, robust associations between Bacteroidales taxawere observed across gut compartments. Analysis of a dietaryperturbation revealed phylogenetically clustered regions suggestinglocal habitat filtering that may be important to maintenance ofdiversity observed on plant-polysaccharide diets, and enabledidentification of spatial niches that may be shared across distinctdiets. Spatial metagenomics constitutes a powerful newculture-independent technique to mechanistically study microbialbiogeography in complex habitats.

To perform MaP-seq, an input sample is first physically fixed byimmobilizing the microbiota via perfusion and in situ polymerization ofan acrylamide polymer matrix that also contains a covalently linkedreverse 16S rRNA amplification primer. The embedded sample is thenfractured via cryo-bead beating, subjected to cell lysis, and passedthrough nylon mesh filters for size selection to yield cell clusters orparticles of desired and tunable physical sizes (i.e. by utilizingdifferent mesh filter sizes). Resulting clusters contain genomic DNAimmobilized in their original arrangement, preserving local spatialinformation. Next, a microfluidic device is used to co-encapsulate theseclusters with gel beads, each containing uniquely barcoded forward 16SrRNA amplification primers. Primers are photocleaved from the beads andclusters, genomic DNA is released from clusters by triggered degradationof the polymer matrix within droplets, and PCR amplification of the 16SV4 region is performed. Droplets are then broken apart, and theresulting library is subjected to deep sequencing. Sequencing reads arefiltered and grouped by their unique barcodes, which yield the identityand abundance of bacterial operational taxonomic units (OTUs) withinindividual cell clusters.

To rigorously test the feasibility of this spatial metagenomicsapproach, we first generated separate cluster communities from eitherhomogenized mouse fecal bacteria or E. coli (Methods) and profiled themwith MaP-seq. The resulting data revealed that the majority of detectedbarcodes mapped uniquely to their respective initial communities withminimal mixing (FIG. 1 b, 4.3% mixed) and negligible contaminationintroduced during sample processing (<0.2% of reads). In addition, theaverage abundance of taxa across individual fecal clusters obtained byenzymatic lysis and droplet PCR displayed good correlation with standardmechanical cell lysis and bulk 16S PCR measurements (FIG. 1c , Pearsoncorrelation r=0.76). A replicate community mixing experiment with newparticles of a smaller size confirmed technical performance of theapproach. Together, these results indicate that MaP-seq accuratelymeasures bacterial identity and abundance within individual spatiallyconstrained cell clusters.

To explore the utility of spatial metagenomics to map the naturalbiogeography of microbiota in complex communities, we applied MaP-seq tothe mouse colonic microbiome. We generated and characterized cellclusters (˜30 μm median diameter) from a segment of the distal colon(including both epithelium and digesta) of a mouse fed aplant-polysaccharide diet, yielding 1,406 clusters passing strictquality filtering across two technical replicates (FIG. 2a , Methods).236 total OTUs were identified with their prevalence across clustershighly correlating to bulk abundance obtained by standard 16Ssequencing, implying that more abundant taxa are also physicallydispersed over more space (FIG. 2b , Pearson correlation r=0.90). Thespatial distribution of taxa across clusters appeared mixed (median 9OTUs per cluster), but some clusters contained only a few OTUsindicating spatial aggregation or clumping in a fraction of thecommunity (FIG. 2c ). Moreover, this observed distribution of OTUs percluster was significantly lower than clusters of the same size generatedfrom homogenized fecal bacteria, which serve as a control for awell-mixed community (Mann-Whitney U test, p<10-26). These resultssuggest that at the scale of tens of microns, individual taxa in the gutmicrobiome are neither fully mixed nor highly structured, but rather areheterogeneously distributed in mixed patches. Peristaltic mixing acrossthe gut likely acts to decrease strong spatial segregation between taxa,but nevertheless the weak but significant spatial structuring observedcould play an important role in the maintenance of high microbialdiversity observed in the healthy gut^(1,22).

We next explored whether these observed spatial distributions reflectspecific associations between individual taxa that may result fromprocesses such as positive or negative interspecies interactions (e.g.,cooperative metabolism²⁴; contact-dependent killing²⁰) or local habitatfiltering¹¹. Across abundant and prevalent OTUs (>2% abundance in >10%of clusters, n=24), we assessed whether their pairwise co-occurrenceswere detected more or less frequently than expected in comparison to anull model of independent, random assortment of OTUs (Methods, Fisher'sexact test, p<0.05, FDR=0.05). Application of this strategy to thecluster mixing control experiment confirmed our ability to accuratelydetect positive and negative spatial associations that are expected. Outof 276 possible pairwise combinations of taxa in the murine colon, wedetected 75 statistically significant associations between diverse taxa,the majority of which were positive (72/75) but relatively weak inmagnitude (FIG. 2d ). The strongest co-occurrence was a positiveassociation between abundant Bacteroidaceae and Porphyromonadaceae taxafrom the Bacteroidales order (odds ratio 3.9, p<10-23). In addition, asmall number of negative associations were observed, which could reflectantagonistic processes such as production of inhibitory factors orcompetitive exclusion.

The number of detected associations increased as more of the dataset issampled, implying that detection of weaker relationships between lessabundant taxa can be improved by analyzing more clusters. Nonetheless,the detected associations showed good correspondence between technicalreplicates. Importantly, despite high inter-host microbiome variability,the nature of the associations (i.e., sign, magnitude, and number) andsome strong associations could be recapitulated in MaP-seq profiling ofa second co-housed mouse, such as the co-occurrence of Bacteroidalestaxa. This characterization implies that individual taxa in the colonare organized in distinct and reproducible spatial relationships.

To further investigate how the spatial organization of the microbiota isinfluenced by their environmental context, we applied spatialmetagenomics along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The mammalian GItract is composed of distinct anatomical regions with different pHlevels, oxygen concentrations, host-derived antimicrobials and transittimes that together influence the local microbiota assemblage⁹. We firstperformed an adapted 16S community profiling approach along the murineGI tract that could also infer absolute OTU abundances25 (FIG. 3a ).This new mouse cohort (2 co-housed mice) shared only ˜20% of OTUs withthe previous group, illustrating the significant inter-animal microbiomeheterogeneity inherent to such studies. This further highlightschallenges for other spatial profiling techniques such as 16S FISHimaging where probes must be designed in advance, in comparison toMaP-seq, which can be applied to measure diverse bacteria withoutadvance specification. Analysis of microbiota in absolute abundanceacross the intestine revealed increased bacterial density (˜16 foldhigher) and species richness in the large intestine compared to thesmall intestine, with the cecum harboring the highest bacterial densityand number of OTUs. We chose three separate GI regions that exhibiteddistinct microbiota assemblages for characterization by MaP seq: theileum (si6), cecum (cec) and distal colon (co2). Given the high degreeof species mixing previously observed at ˜30 μm, we used smaller sizedclusters (˜20 μm median diameter) to capture higher-resolution spatialassociations.

We first assessed the distribution of OTUs per cluster to compare thespatial organization of taxa in the three regions (FIG. 3b ). ˜20 μmclusters displayed lower numbers of OTUs per cluster than ˜30 μmclusters (median 3-4 OTUs per cluster). The ileum possessedsignificantly fewer OTUs per cluster than the cecum or distal colon(Mann-Whitney U test, p<10-18 and p <10-14 respectively). In comparison,the cecum and colon displayed similar OTU distributions, while the cecumharbored more clusters with a large number of OTUs. This suggests thatGI regions with more diverse microbiota also exhibit higher spatialdiversity at microscopic scales.

To understand how the local spatial organization of the microbiome mayvary within and across different gut compartments, we visualized thecell clusters data across the three gut regions using t-distributedStochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE, utilizing Bray-Curtis distance ofOTU relative abundance within clusters), as well as the abundance ofprevalent bacterial families in cell clusters across the resultingmanifold (Methods, FIG. 3c ). While some cell clusters from the ileum,cecum and distal colon separately projected into distinct groups, otherclusters from each site projected more broadly across the manifold.Interestingly, a subset of cell clusters from the cecum projected into adense group and are compositionally dominated by Lachnospiraceae, whichwere generally not present in clusters from the ileum or distal colon.When cell clusters from a second co-housed mouse were added to the tSNEanalysis, they were distributed in a similar manner to clusters from thefirst mouse across the manifold and displayed a similar cecum-specificLachnospiraceae group, further strengthening these results. Ourobservations suggest that the spatial distribution of some taxa atdifferent GI regions may have distinct local organizations from oneanother while other taxa may have similar local organization along theGI tract.

Next, we explored whether these different spatial distributions reflectdistinct spatial co-associations between taxa at each GI site (FIG. 3d). The ileum harbored a network of positive and negative associationsbetween the few taxa present. On the other hand, the cecum exhibited adense network of positively co-associated taxa, primarily betweenabundant Lachnospiraceae, Ruminococcaceae, and Porphyromonadaceae.Similar to the cecum, the distal colon displayed only positiveassociations, including strong groupings between three abundantPorphyromonadaceae (OTUs 5,8,9). Profiling the colon at an even smallersize-scale (˜7 μm) confirmed strong positive associations between thesethree taxa, indicating that this spatial clustering occurs robustly atshort, local length scales. Species from these abundant Bacteroidalestaxa often contain diverse carbohydrate-active enzymes²⁶ and are knownto engage in cooperative metabolic cross-feeding^(24,27), which couldpromote these spatial co-associations.

While the spatial association networks revealed by MaP-seq differedacross the three GI regions, some common co-associations (or lack ofassociations) were observed. For example, a positive association betweenLachnospiraceae (OTU 10) and Lactobacillaceae (OTU 4) was found in boththe cecum and colon; on the other hand, Coriobacteriaceae (OTU 1), anabundant taxon at all sites, lacked co-associations with other taxa andwas thus randomly assorted at all sites. Together, the differing spatialarchitectures observed across GI sites suggest that regionalenvironmental factors can variably shape some local spatial structuringof the microbiota, while conserved spatial patterns across sites aremore likely the result of robust ecological interactions not affected byenvironmental variations.

We further investigated whether MaP-seq could identify individual taxawith unique or altered spatial patterns. While the cecum harbored thedensest community and the highest degree of species mixing of the threesites (FIG. 3a-b ), we hypothesized that specific taxa mayself-aggregate to a higher degree than others, for example by uniquelyutilizing a specific metabolite¹¹. Assessing the aggregation of abundanttaxa revealed a Lachnospiraceae (OTU 7; putatively of the genus Dorea,60% confidence by RDP) that clustered two-fold greater than the averageclustering metric value of all taxa. To validate this finding with anorthogonal approach, we performed 16S FISH on GI sections from the samemurine sample using previously validated probes that targetedLachnospiraceae (Erec482) as well as two other abundant taxa for whichFISH probes were available but were predicted not to cluster at asimilar degree (Coriobacteriaceae: Ato291, Lactobacillaceae: Lab148;Methods). Strikingly, imaging confirmed that while Lachnospiraceae weredistributed across the cecum, they also formed large clusteredaggregates that appeared to exclude other bacteria. Importantly, thisresult highlights that individual taxa in the gut can organize in uniqueand spatially varying micron scale structures that can be revealed byMaP-seq.

Having established the local spatial organization across the GI tract ofmice fed a standard plant polysaccharide diet, we next sought tounderstand the extent to which diet might influence spatial structuring.Diet is known to play a major role in shaping the variation of gutmicrobiota across individuals^(28,29). While diet shifts can rapidlyalter microbiota composition within days³⁰, the detailed ecologicalmechanisms underlying these community-scale changes are not wellunderstood. We thus took co-housed mice and split them into two cohortswhere one was maintained on the plant polysaccharide based diet (LF,same as in the previous cohorts) and one was switched to a high fat,high sugar diet (HF, commonly utilized in dietary-induced obesitystudies) to assess microbiota changes associated with these two dietsrepresenting distinct macronutrient profiles. After 10 days on the twodiets, a considerable loss of species richness in the cecum and colonwas observed in HF-fed mice compared to LF-fed mice (FIG. 4a ).

To determine if a dietary shift could alter the spatial organization ofthe microbiota, which could contribute to the observed loss of speciesdiversity, we performed MaP-seq on distal colon samples from mice fedthe LF or HF diet. We found that the distribution of unique OTUs per ˜20μm cluster was similar between both diets (FIG. 4b , top). This impliesthat species distributions at the local ˜20 μm scale is governed byfactors that are either common to or not affected by the two diets, forexample 202 spatial autocorrelation of bacterial growth. However,assessing diversity at the higher taxonomic family-rank revealedsignificantly higher diversity in HF clusters (Mann-Whitney U test,p<10-22, FIG. 4b , bottom), indicating that while both LF and HFclusters contained similar numbers of OTUs, taxa within individual HFclusters were more phylogenetically diverse. Furthermore, positiveco-associations were more frequently observed between diverse taxa in HFdiet than in LF diet, which in contrast had co-associations mostlybetween Porphyromonadaceae or Lachnospiraceae. Interestingly, ourobservation of increased bacterial mixing at higher taxonomic levels hasalso been documented in mice fed with a plant polysaccharide deficientdiet (compared to a LF plant-polysaccharide rich diet) using confocalimaging with 16S FISH probes of limited phylum-level specificity6, whichfurther highlights the utility of examining spatial organization at ahigher taxonomic resolution that is achievable by MaP-seq.

Understanding the phylogenetic distribution of an ecosystem can provideimportant insights into ecological processes underlying communityassembly^(31,32). To better quantify possible changes in phylogeneticdiversity between the two diets, we calculated the net relatedness index(NRI) of clusters, a standardized effect size of the mean phylogeneticdistance of taxa present within clusters against a null model of randomsampling from the local species pool (Methods)31. For each microbiotacluster, a positive NRI value indicates phylogenetic clustering of itstaxa, whereas a negative NRI indicates phylogenetic over-dispersion.While most clusters had NRI values near 0, suggesting randomphylogenetic distributions, both LF and HF diets showed a subset ofclusters with high negative NRI values suggesting a high degree ofphylogenetic over-dispersion. Interestingly, NRI values in LF clusterswere overall significantly higher compared to HF values (Mann-Whitney Utest, p<10-18), driven by a subset of LF clusters with positive NRIs notobserved in HF clusters (FIG. 4c ). The phylogenetic clustering observedin this subset of LF clusters suggests that ecological habitat filteringdue to factors associated with the LF diet (e.g. complex plantpolysaccharides) may be important in shaping in the formation of theseclusters at length-scale of ˜20 μm (assuming that more phylogeneticallysimilar taxa also have more similar phenotypes). A possible explanationfor the loss of species diversity when transitioning from a LF to a HFdiet could thus be the loss of this LF-specific local niche, whichstably hosts these closely related taxa. Indeed, the same taxa(predominantly Lachnospiraceae OTUs) that are abundantly found in LFclusters with high NRI values are those that are almost completely loston HF diet.

Next, to compare the taxa spatial organization across the two diets, wevisualized clusters using tSNE as before (FIG. 4d ). Cell clusters fromthe two diets each formed highly distinct groups with minimal overlap,indicating that the spatial organization in the distal colon wassignificantly altered by the dietary shift. Despite this overallseparation, we observed examples of cluster configurations that wereshared between the two diets. For example, HF clusters were observed ina predominantly LF region marked by high abundance of aPorphyromondaceae taxa (OTU 5), and LF clusters were observed in apredominantly HF region marked by high abundance of a Bacteroidaceaetaxa (OTU 6). These shared cluster regions could represent spatialniches that may be independent of the diet (e.g. mucus layers secretedby the host). Taken together, MaP-seq profiling of a diet perturbationenabled mechanistic analysis of ecological processes underlyingcommunity shifts and loss of diversity.

Spatial metagenomics enables the high-throughput characterization ofmicrobial biogeography through microscopic plot sampling of co-localizednucleic acids at tunable length scales. This general approach could beapplied to interrogate a variety of perturbations in the gut (e.g.,diet, antibiotics, fecal microbiota transplantation), other mammalianassociated microbiota (e.g. skin, genital), or diverse environmentalecosystems, such as soils or biofilms. Importantly, MaP-seq enablesin-depth analysis of these processes at previously inaccessible andecologically meaningful local length scales within individualmicrobiomes. Improvements to further increase the throughput of theapproach could better delineate weaker or rarer co-associations and helpinvestigate structuring across many different characteristic lengthscales within microbiomes. A variety of established spatial ecologytools and emerging computational and analytical approaches could beapplied to this new type of high-dimensional microbiome dataset.Extensions of this general framework to spatially profile otherbiological molecules such as RNA, proteins and metabolites will enablemapping of complex cellular systems across mechanistically important andfunctionally distinct axes. Plot sampling of biological structures atmicroscopic scales opens up new directions of research that employspatial ecology tools to study these complex systems.

Materials and Reagents.

All primers and FISH probes were ordered from Integrated DNATechnologies. Primers containing any modifications were HPLC purified bythe manufacturer. Photocleavable primers were protected from unnecessarylight exposure throughout.

Animal Procedures.

All mouse procedures were approved by the Columbia University MedicalCenter Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (protocolAC-AAAR1513) and complied with all relevant regulations. 6-8 week-oldfemale C57BL6/J mice were obtained from Taconic (colonic analysis, FIG.2) or Jackson (analysis across GI tract, FIG. 3; dietary perturbation,FIG. 4) and fed a plant-polysaccharide based diet (LabDiet 5053).Dietary perturbation was performed by splitting four co-housed mice intotwo cages; one cage received the same plant-polysaccharide based dietand one cage received high fat diet (Teklad TD.06414).

Microfluidic Device Fabrication.

Devices were fabricated utilizing standard SU-8 soft lithography.Silanized SU-8 silicon wafer molds were fabricated by FlowJEM with afeature height of ˜40 μm. PDMS (Dow Corning Sylgard 184) was mixed for 5minutes at a ratio of 10:1 base to curing agent, degassed under housevacuum for 30 minutes, and poured over the wafer. The PDMS mixture wascured at 80° C. for 1 hour, allowed to cool to room temperature andremoved from the wafer. Individual devices were cut from the PDMS slaband ports were punched utilizing a 1 mm biopsy punch (World PrecisionInstruments 504646). FIG. 11.

Uniquely Barcoded Bead Design and Construction.

We designed custom barcoded hydrogel beads containing one of 884,736unique barcoded primers per bead and a partial sequencing adapter and16S V4 primer 515f (see Parada, A. E., Needham, D. M. & Fuhrman, J. A.Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marinemicrobiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples.Environ Microbiol 18, 1403-1414 (2016); Walters, W. et al. ImprovedBacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal TranscribedSpacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys. mSystems 1,e00009-15-10 (2015)). Theoretically, around ˜17,500 clusters can becaptured per sample with a 1% multiple barcoding rate (see Klein, A. M.et al. Droplet Barcoding for Single-Cell Transcriptomics Applied toEmbryonic Stem Cells. Cell 161, 1187-1201 (2015)). Barcoded primersequences were constructed via a split-and-pool primer extensionstrategy (see Klein, A. M. et al. (2015); Bose, S. et al. Scalablemicrofluidics for single-cell RNA printing and sequencing. Genome 672Biology 1-16 (2015). doi:10.1186/s13059-015-0684-3) with three barcodeextension rounds. Each barcode position contained 96 possible sequences,and each set of barcodes was selected such that each had at least 3 bphamming distance from the other barcodes in each set (allowing for 1 bperror correction). The first barcode position was 7-9 bp in length(allowing for dephasing of reads to improve sequencing quality) whilethe second and third positions were 8 bp in length.

Construction of the barcoded beads followed procedures from Zilionis etal. (see Zilionis, R. et al. Single-cell barcoding and sequencing usingdroplet microfluidics. Nat Protoc 12, 44-73 (2017)) with minormodification for our barcoding scheme. Briefly, acrylamide beads (6% w/wacrylamide, 0.18% w/w N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide [Sigma-Aldrich146072], 20 μM acry_pc_pe1 [see Table 1]) were generated using a custommicrofluidic droplet device. Resulting beads were ˜20-25 μm in diameter.Batches of ˜20 million beads were then subjected to three rounds ofprimer extension using the three sets of 96 barcode sequences (pe1, pe2,and pe3 primer extension sets, see Table 2). For each round, beads andprimers were distributed into wells of a 96 well PCR microplate andprimers were annealed to the beads by incubation. A Bst polymerasereaction master mix (NEB M0537L) was then distributed to each well andincubated to allow for extension. Finally, the reaction was quenchedwith EDTA and pooled for cleanup steps. The beads were then subjected todenaturing of the extension primers by sodium hydroxide and washing, andthe extension protocol was repeated. These procedures were automated ona Biomek 4000 liquid handling robot where possible. After the finalextension step, a primer targeted to the terminal 515f primer sequence(515f_RC, see Table 1) was annealed, and an Exo1 enzymatic cleanup (NEBM0293L) was utilized to remove extension intermediates. Resultingbarcoded beads were subjected to a final denaturing and washing step andstored at 4° C. in TET (10 mM Tris HCl [pH 8.0], 1 mM EDTA, 0.1%Tween-20). FIG. 12.

TABLE 1 Primer name Primer sequence acry_pc_pe1/5Acryd//iSpPC/GACTACTCCACGACG CTCTTCCGATCT acry_pc_pe2_816r/5Acryd//iSpPC/ATTAGGTCGACGTGTGC TCTTCCGATCTGGACTACNVGGGTWTCTAAT 515f_RCTTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCAC

TABLE 2 Primer Barcode name Primer sequence sequence pe1_1CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCTAGTAGATCGGA ACTAGGT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_2CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGAGCTAGATCGGA AGCTCTA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_3CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACTCTCTAGATCGGA AGAGAGT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_4CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGAACACAGATCGG GTGTTCC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_5CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCAGCTAAAGATCGGA TTAGCTG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_6CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTATGGTAGATCGGA ACCATAC AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_7CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAACGGTAAGATCGG TACCGTT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_8CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTTGGCAGATCGGA GCCAACT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_9CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGACTTCAGATCGGA GAAGTCT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_10CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGCTTAAGATCGGA TAAGCAC AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_11CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCACTAGAGATCGGA CTAGTGG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_12CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCGCTATAGATCGGA ATAGCGC AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_13CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGACACTAGATCGGA AGTGTCA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_14CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAGGAACAGATCGG GTTCCTC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_15CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTGACCAAGATCGGA TGGTCAA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_16CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGTAGCAAGATCGG TGCTACC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_17CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTGAGAGATCGGA CTCAACG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_18CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACAACTGAGATCGGA CAGTTGT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_19CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAGTCAAGATCGGA TGACTGA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_20CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTACATAGATCGGA ATGTACG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_21CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGAGTGCAGATCGGA GCACTCA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_22CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCTGTTAAGATCGGA TAACAGG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_23CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCTCTAAGATCGGA TAGAGGT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_24CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATTCCACAGATCGGA GTGGAAT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_25CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCGTATGAGATCGGA CATACGA AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_26CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTTGTAGATCGGA ACAACCT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_27CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTAGTCAGATCGGA GACTACG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_28CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTTCTCGAGATCGGA CGAGAAG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_29CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTAAGAGATCGG CTTACCT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_30CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGATCTCAAGATCGGA TGAGATC AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_31CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATCGAACAGATCGGA GTTCGAT AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_32CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACGCATAGATCGGA ATGCGTG AGAGCGTCGTG pe1_33CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAACTCAGGAGATCGG CCTGAGTT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_34CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGCCACAAAGATCGG TTGTGGCA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_35CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATGGCGATAGATCGG ATCGCCAT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_36CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAATCAGCGAGATCGG CGCTGATT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_37CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGTTGTACAGATCGG GTACAACC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_38CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCGACTTAGATCGG AAGTCGAG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_39CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGGAAGCAGATCGG GCTTCCTA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_40CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGCATGTAGATCGG ACATGCAC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_41CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAATCGGAGATCGG CCGATTGA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_42CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAAGCTCAGATCGG GAGCTTGA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_43CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTGTCACAGATCGG GTGACACT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_44CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTGTTCCAGATCGG GGAACACA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_45CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCCGAATCAGATCGG GATTCGGA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_46CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGAGTACAAGATCGG TGTACTCC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_47CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGACAGAAGATCGG TCTGTCCT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_48CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCACAGTTAGATCGG AACTGTGC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_49CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGACAACAAGATCGG TGTTGTCG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_50CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCACGTAAGATCGG TACGTGCT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_51CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCAACAGTAGATCGG ACTGTTGG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_52CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAGGACAAGATCGG TGTCCTGA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_53CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTATCCTGAGATCGG CAGGATAG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_54CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTCTGTCAGATCGG GACAGACA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_55CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCTAGTCTAGATCGG AGACTAGG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_56CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTAATGGCAGATCGG GCCATTAC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_57CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGTGGCTAGATCGG AGCCACTA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_58CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAATCTGCAGATCGG GCAGATTC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_59CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTCGATGCAGATCGG GCATCGAA AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_60CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCTTGGTTAGATCGG AACCAAGC AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_61CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCTGATCAGATCGG GATCAGCT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_62CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATAAGCGGAGATCGG CCGCTTAT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_63CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACTTCGGAAGATCGG TCCGAAGT AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_64CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTAGTCGAAGATCGG TCGACTAG AAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_65CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTCTTGCAGATCG GCAAGAACG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_66CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTAGACTCAGATCG GAGTCTACA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_67CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAAGGCCTAAGATCG TAGGCCTTC GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_68CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTCGTAAGGAGATCG CCTTACGAA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_69CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGATCACCTAGATCG AGGTGATCA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_70CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGCTAACGAGATCG CGTTAGCTA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_71CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTAGAAGGAGATCG CCTTCTACG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_72CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTCTCGAAAGATCG TTCGAGAGA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_73CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTAGTTCCAGATCG GGAACTAGA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_74CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCGAAGAGAAGATCG TCTCTTCGG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_75CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTGACATAGATCG ATGTCACCT GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_76CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTGAGAACGAGATCG CGTTCTCAG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_77CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCAGCTGAAAGATCG TTCAGCTGG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_78CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTCGACAAGATCG TGTCGAACG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_79CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTTAGACCAGATCG GGTCTAAGA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_80CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACGAGCAAAGATCG TTGCTCGTG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_81CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTGCCGAATAGATCG ATTCGGCAG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_82CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGGCTCATAAGATCG TATGAGCCC GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_83CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACCGTACTAGATCG AGTACGGTG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_84CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGTCTCGAAGATCG TCGAGACAC GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_85CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTACTGCGAAGATCG TCGCAGTAA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_86CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCCATACGAAGATCG TCGTATGGA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_87CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGATCCAGGTAGATCG ACCTGGATC GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_88CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTTGCGAAAGATCG TTCGCAACT GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_89CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTTGAGAAGATCG TCTCAACCT GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_90CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTTGCGCTTAGATCG AAGCGCAAC GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_91CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCGAGAGAAGATCG TCTCTCGAG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_92CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTTCCTAGAGATCG CTAGGAACA GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_93CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCACACTGAGATCG CAGTGTGAG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_94CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCACATGTAGATCG ACATGTGGT GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_95CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCTTAACCAGATCG GGTTAAGCT GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe1_96CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACCTATGCAGATCG GCATAGGTG GAAGAGCGTCGTG pe2_1CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACTGGTACCGCTCAG GTACCAGT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_2CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTACTGTCGCTCAG ACAGTACC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_3CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTGTGTGCGCTCAG CACACAGA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_4CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTATGGCTCCGCTCAG GAGCCATA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_5CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTTGTCAGCGCTCAG CTGACAAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_6CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATGCCAGTCGCTCAG ACTGGCAT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_7CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGCTACTACGCTCAG TAGTAGCG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_8CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCATACACGCGCTCA CGTGTATG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_9CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCGAGGATCGCTCA ATCCTCGA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_10CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTTCGATCGCTCAG ATCGAACC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_11CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGGAACACGCTCA TGTTCCGT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_12CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGTTGCATCGCTCAG ATGCAACG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_13CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATACGTCCCGCTCAG GGACGTAT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_14CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATCTGGACGCTCA TCCAGATC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_15CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTCGAAGCGCTCAG CTTCGAGA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_16CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTGTGCTACGCTCAG TAGCACAG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_17CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGGTGGAACGCTCA TTCCACCT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_18CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCAACGCGCTCA CGTTGCTA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_19CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTCATTCCGCTCAG GAATGACC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_20CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGATACGCCGCTCA GCGTATCT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_21CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAACTGCTCGCTCAG AGCAGTTC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_22CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTGCACACGCTCA TGTGCACT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_23CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCGATCATCGCTCAG ATGATCGG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_24CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACAAGGACCGCTCA GTCCTTGT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_25CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATTCGGTCCGCTCAG GACCGAAT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_26CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGTGACGCGCTCAG CGTCACAA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_27CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAAGTCTGCGCTCA CAGACTTC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_28CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGGACGAACGCTCA TTCGTCCA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_29CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAGTTCCTCGCTCAG AGGAACTC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_30CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATAGGAGCGCTCA CTCCTATC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_31CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGCTTGGACGCTCA TCCAAGCT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_32CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACATCCTCGCTCAG AGGATGTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_33CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTCCTGACGCTCAG TCAGGACT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_34CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTTGTAGCCGCTCAG GCTACAAG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_35CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAGGAGTACGCTCA TACTCCTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_36CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACAAGGACGCTCA TCCTTGTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_37CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTCCTCTGCGCTCAG CAGAGGAA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_38CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCATTGCTCGCTCAG AGCAATGG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_39CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGCACATAGCGCTCA CTATGTGC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_40CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACTGTACCGCTCAG GTACAGTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_41CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTGATCTCCGCTCAG GAGATCAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_42CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAATGCCGTCGCTCAG ACGGCATT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_43CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCCTTGTCCGCTCAG GACAAGGA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_44CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTAGGCACGCTCA TGCCTACT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_45CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGCCTCTTCGCTCAG AAGAGGCT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_46CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGATTACGCGCTCAG CGTAATCG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_47CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCAGGAATCGCTCA ATTCCTGG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_48CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAGTCAGTCGCTCA ACTGACTC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_49CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGAGAGGACGCTCA TCCTCTCA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_50CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGACTCACGCTCA TGAGTCGT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_51CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCTCAGCGCTCAG CTGAGCTA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_52CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAACCGGTCGCTCAG ACCGGTTA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_53CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTACTGAGCGCTCA CTCAGTAC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_54CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAACCACTCCGCTCAG GAGTGGTT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_55CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAGTTACCCGCTCAG GGTAACTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_56CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATGGATGCGCTCA CATCCATC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_57CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTACCTCTCGCTCAG AGAGGTAG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_58CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCAAGAGCGCTCA CTCTTGAC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_59CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATCTACGCGCTCAG CGTAGATC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_60CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACATTCCGCGCTCAG CGGAATGT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_61CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTGAATCCCGCTCAG GGATTCAG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_62CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGGCCATACGCTCAG TATGGCCA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_63CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCTTGCTCGCTCAG AGCAAGAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_64CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGTGTTGCGCTCAG CAACACGT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_65CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAAGCGTTCGCTCA AACGCTTC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_66CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAACGCCACGCTCA TGGCGTTA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_67CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGGCTGTACGCTCA TACAGCCT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_68CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTACAGTGCGCTCAG CACTGTAG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_69CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTCAGAGCCGCTCAG GCTCTGAA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_70CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGCCTACACGCTCAG TGTAGGCA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_71CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGGATTGACGCTCA TCAATCCG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_72CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGAGGATTCGCTCA AATCCTCC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_73CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCATTAGCCCGCTCAG GGCTAATG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_74CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGGTCACCGCTCAG GTGACCAA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_75CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAAGCAAGCGCTCA CTTGCTTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_76CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAACATCCCGCTCAG GGATGTTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_77CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGACGACAACGCTCA TTGTCGTC GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_78CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATCGAGTCCGCTCAG GACTCGAT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_79CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTATGCGAGCGCTCA CTCGCATA GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_80CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCTTCCCGCTCAG GGAAGCTA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_81CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACCAACGTCGCTCA ACGTTGGT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_82CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGCGATACGCTCA TATCGCGT GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_83CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCAGCTACGCTCAG TAGCTGAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_84CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACCAGATCGCTCA ATCTGGTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_85CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAACCTTGCGCTCAG CAAGGTTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_86CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGCCTTGCGCTCAG CAAGGCAA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_87CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTCTGCTCGCTCAG AGCAGACT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_88CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCCTTCACGCTCAG TGAAGGAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_89CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGGTCTATCGCTCAG ATAGACCG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_90CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTGCCTTCGCTCAG AAGGCAGA CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_91CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAAGTTGGCGCTCA CCAACTTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_92CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATCTACGGCGCTCAG CCGTAGAT CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_93CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACTTCTGCGCTCAG CAGAAGTG CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_94CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACACAACCGCTCA GTTGTGTG GCAGTGTCTCGC pe2_95CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGCCTAATGCGCTCAG CATTAGGC CAGTGTCTCGC pe2_96CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTTCGCATCGCTCAG ATGCGAAC CAGTGTCTCGC pe3_1TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAGTCTAGCGAC CTAGACTC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_2TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCTCTATCGAC ATAGAGGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_3TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCATTCTCGAC AGAATGGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_4TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACGGTTGCGAC CAACCGTA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_5TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACTCTACCCGAC GGTAGAGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_6TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTAGGTCCACGAC TGGACCTA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_7TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCCTGAGTCGAC ACTCAGGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_8TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTGGATAGCGAC CTATCCAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_9TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCGCTATTCGAC AATAGCGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_10TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGAAGGAACGA TTCCTTCC CGAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_11TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGACTCAACGAC TTGAGTCC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_12TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACACTCGCGAC CGAGTGTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_13TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCGGAATTCGAC AATTCCGG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_14TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACTTGCCCGAC GGCAAGTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_15TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGACAGGCGAC CCTGTCAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_16TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTTAGCGCGAC CGCTAAGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_17TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTGTTGCACGAC TGCAACAG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_18TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAACACGCGAC CGTGTTCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_19TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCTTGATGCGAC CATCAAGG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_20TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGCGATCTCGAC AGATCGCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_21TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCTCAGAACGAC TTCTGAGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_22TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATTGCGTGCGAC CACGCAAT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_23TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCATCCGTTCGAC AACGGATG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_24TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTCTGGTCGAC ACCAGAGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_25TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACGAGCACGAC TGCTCGTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_26TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACGTTCACCGAC GTGAACGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_27TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATCAGCACCGAC GTGCTGAT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_28TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGATAGCGACGAC TCGCTATC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_29TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAGCTTGCGAC CAAGCTCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_30TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGATCGTCCGAC GACGATCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_31TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACGATACGCGAC CGTATCGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_32TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTAACTGGCGAC CCAGTTAG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_33TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCGCGTAACGAC TTACGCGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_34TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGGTTCTTCGAC AAGAACCG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_35TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGGTTCGCGAC CGAACCAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_36TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAAGTAGCCGAC GCTACTTC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_37TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGCTAGAACGAC TTCTAGCC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_38TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCATCGTGACGAC TCACGATG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_39TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCACCAACCGAC GTTGGTGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_40TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTTCAAGGCGAC CCTTGAAG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_41TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGTAGCTCCGAC GAGCTACT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_42TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCACATTCGAC AATGTGGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_43TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTCACGGACGAC TCCGTGAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_44TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGACGTTGCGAC CAACGTCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_45TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCATCTGGCGAC CCAGATGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_46TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGTTCATCCGAC GATGAACG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_47TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACCGTCACGAC TGACGGTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_48TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCTAAGCCGAC GCTTAGCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_49TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCAGGTAGACGAC TCTACCTG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_50TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAAGAACCGCGAC CGGTTCTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_51TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGAGACTCGAC AGTCTCCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_52TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGTGAAGGCGAC CCTTCACT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_53TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTTCAGCCGAC GCTGAAGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_54TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACGGAGTCGAC ACTCCGTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_55TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAAGAGACCGA GTCTCTTC CGAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_56TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATTGGTGGCGAC CCACCAAT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_57TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTGTCAAGCGAC CTTGACAG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_58TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGCATCACGAC TGATGCCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_59TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAAGAGGTCCGAC GACCTCTT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_60TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCATTCGCGAC CGAATGCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_61TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGGACGTCGAC ACGTCCAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_62TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGCTGGACGAC TCCAGCAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_63TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGGAGATGCGAC CATCTCCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_64TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACGTACCCGAC GGTACGTA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_65TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGACACCTCGAC AGGTGTCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_66TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTCCATTGCGAC CAATGGAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_67TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCAGAGAAGCGA CTTCTCTG CGAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_68TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCTTCAGCGAC CTGAAGCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_69TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACACTGCCGAC GCAGTGTA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_70TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGACGTATCGAC ATACGTCC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_71TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTCGCATACGAC TATGCGAG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_72TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCATCCTACGAC TAGGATGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_73TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGCTTACCGAC GTAAGCCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_74TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTAAGTCGCGAC CGACTTAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_75TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTCTGGAGCGAC CTCCAGAA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_76TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGACACACACGAC TGTGTGTC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_77TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACCAGACACGAC TGTCTGGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_78TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCAGCTTCGAC AAGCTGCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_79TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCAACTTCCGAC GAAGTTGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_80TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACTCGCTTCGAC AAGCGAGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_81TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGAACTCCCGAC GGAGTTCA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_82TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTGTAAGCCGAC GCTTACAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_83TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATGCACCTCGAC AGGTGCAT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_84TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCCGTCAACGAC TTGACGGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_85TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTCGGTATCGAC ATACCGAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_86TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACAGATCCCGAC GGATCTGT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_87TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCGGATCTCGAC AGATCCGA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_88TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAGTCGTCGAC ACGACTCT GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_89TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAATAGCGCGAC CGCTATTC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_90TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGATTGGTCGAC ACCAATCC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_91TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCATAGACGAC TCTATGGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_92TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGTCAGAGCGAC CTCTGACA GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_93TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCTACGAACGAC TTCGTAGG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_94TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTTACGTCCGAC GACGTAAC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_95TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGAGATACCGAC GTATCTCG GAGGCTGGAGTGAC pe3_96TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCATTGACCGAC GTCAATGC GAGGCTGGAGTGAC

TABLE 3 Primer Barcode name Primer sequence sequence p7_1CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTCGATGAGGTGA CTCATCGACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_2 CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAACGATCCGTGAGGATCGTT CTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_3CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTAACGTGGGTGA CCACGTTACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_4 CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATATGGAGGAGTGATCCTCCAT CTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_5CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGCGAAGATGTGA ATCTTCGCCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_6 CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATACTTCGCTGTGAAGCGAAGT CTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_7CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTGCGTAAGGTGA CTTACGCACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_8 CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGGTCAAGTGTGAACTTGACC CTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_9CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGGCTTACGTGA GTAAGCCTCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_10CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGATTCTCGGTGA CGAGAATCCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_11CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGTCTCCTAGTGA TAGGAGACCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_12CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGACGGTATGTGA ATACCGTCCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_13CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCATGGTGTGTGA ACACCATGCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_14CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTGTCTACCGTGA GGTAGACACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_15CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATACCATGCAGTGA TGCATGGTCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_16CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCATTCCTGGTGA CAGGAATGCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_17CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGGACTAGGTGA CTAGTCCTCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_18CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGCTTGTTGGTGA CAACAAGCCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_19CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGTCACACGTGA GTGTGACTCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_20CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCCAGTTGTGTGA ACAACTGGCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_21 CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCTCCATTCGTGGAATGGAG ACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_22CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTTGCCAACGTGA GTTGGCAACTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_23CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGAGCACATGTGA ATGTGCTCCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p7_24CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATATGTGGTGGTGA CACCACATCTGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_1 AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTAGATCTAGATCGC GCACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_2AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACCTCTCT CTCTCTATATACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_3AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTATCCTC TATCCTCTTACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_4AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACAGAGTAG AGAGTAGAAACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_5AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACGTAAGGA GTAAGGAGGACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_6AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACACTGCAT ACTGCATAAACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_7AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACAAGGAGT AAGGAGTAAACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT p5_8AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACCTAAGCC CTAAGCCTTACACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT

TABLE 4 Primer name Primer sequence bead_pe1_cy5/5Cy5/AGATCGGAAGAGCGTCGTG bead_515f_cy5 /5Cy5/TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACerec482_a488 /5Alex488N/GCTTCTTAGTCAGGTACCG lab158_cy3/5Cy3/GGTATTAGCAYCTGTTTCCA ato291_cy5 /5Cy5/GGTCGGTCTCTCAACCCerec482_cy3 /5Cy3/GCTTCTTAGTCAGGTACCG eub338_cy5/5Cy5/GCTGCCTCCCGTAGGAGT non338_cy5 /5Cy5/ACTCCTACGGGAGGCAGC

TABLE 5 Final Cluster Reads, Reads Number number size cutoff, Clusters,cutoff, Clusters, clusters of Dataset (microns) TR1 TR1 TR2 TR2discarded clusters Community 30 1440 399 N/A N/A N/A 399 mixing, E.coli + homogenized fecal material Community 20 566 88 N/A N/A N/A 88mixing, S. pasteurii + homogenized fecal material Mouse distal 30 992715 717 754 63 1406 colon Mouse distal 30 920 730 651 624 126 1228 colon(co- housed mouse) Mouse ileum 20 432 379 510 114 107 386 (si6) Mousececum 20 405 235 314 193 23 405 (cec) Mouse distal 20 404 164 442 124 29259 colon (co2) Mouse distal 7 540 292 438 237 0 529 colon (co2) Mouseileum 20 379 157 396 104 0 261 (si6; co-housed mouse) Mouse cecum 20 239112 256 177 66 223 (cec; co-housed mouse) Mouse distal 7 328 111 286 400 151 colon (co2; co- housed mouse) Mouse distal 20 121 240 124 255 0495 colon, LF diet Mouse distal 20 184 225 125 192 58 359 colon, LFdiet, adjacent segment Mouse distal 20 262 503 279 460 25 938 colon, HFdiet

All mouse samples were collected in technical replicate (TR), a singletechnical replicate was collected for community mixing experiments. Theprocedure to remove technical artifacts (i.e. “Number clustersdiscarded”) was not performed on community mixing experiments given thatthey are composed of highly homogenous communities.

Sample Fixation and In Situ Polymerization.

Intact tissue segments (from the colon, cecum or small intestine asnoted) were obtained by dissection and immediately fixed in methacarnsolution (60% methanol, 30% chloroform, 10% acetic acid) for 24 hours(see Johansson, M. E. V. & Hansson, G. C. Preservation of mucus inhistological sections, immunostaining of mucins in fixed tissue, andlocalization of bacteria with FISH. Methods Mol. Biol. 842, 229-235(2012)). The fixed tissue was trimmed with a sterile razor into segmentsno larger than 3 mm in length, and segments containing digesta wereselected. Thus, all input samples for MaP-seq analysis containedundisturbed epithelial tissue and lumenal digesta contents. The trimmedsample was then incubated in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) for 5minutes and was permeabilized in PBS with 0.1% v/v Triton-X 100 for 5minutes. Next, a matrix embedding solution (see Chung, K. et al.Structural and molecular interrogation of intact biological systems.Nature 497, 332-337 (2013); Chen, F., Tillberg, P. W. & Boyden, E. S.Expansion microscopy. Science 347, 543-548 (2015) containing a reversesequencing primer with 16S V4 primer 806rB (see Klein, A. M. et al.(2015); Apprill, A., McNally, S., Parsons, R. & Weber, L. Minor revisionto V4 region SSU rRNA 806R gene primer greatly increases detection ofSAR11 bacterioplankton. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 75, 129-137 (2015)) andacrydite and photocleavable linker groups was prepared on ice by mixingconcentrated stocks of the following components in order: 1×PBS, 10% w/wacrylamide (Sigma-Aldrich A9099), 0.4% w/w N,N′-Bis(acryloyl)cystamine(BAC, Alfa Aesar 44132-03), 5 μM acry_pc_pe2_816r (see Table 1), 0.01%w/w 4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin- 1-oxyl (Sigma-Aldrich176141), 0.2% w/w tetramethylethylenediamine (Sigma-Aldrich T7024) and0.2% w/w ammonium persulfate (Sigma-Aldrich A3678). The BAC crosslinkerenables gel degradation upon exposure to reducing conditions. The samplewas dabbed dry with a sterile Kimwipe and placed in a PCR tube withexcess matrix embedding solution (˜50 μL per segment) and incubated onice for 5 minutes. Excess embedding solution was removed by pipettingand replaced, and the sample was subsequently incubated on ice for >1hour for perfusion. Excess embedding solution was removed, and sampleswere placed in a 37° C. incubator in an anaerobic chamber (CoyLaboratory Products) for >3 hours. Gel-embedded samples were removed,excess polymer matrix was trimmed from the sample with a sterile razor,and the sample was washed twice with PBS and once with TET and stored inTET at 4° C. FIG. 13.

Sample Fracturing, Lysis and Size-Selection.

Samples were placed in a stainless-steel vial (Biospec 2007) along witha 6.35 mm stainless steel bead (Biospec 11709635ss), and were sealedwith a silicone rubber plug cap (Biospec 2008). The vial was placed inliquid nitrogen for >2 minutes, vigorously shaken to dislodge the samplefrom the vial wall, and quickly transferred to a bead beater (Biospec112011) and subjected to beating for 10 seconds. PBS was added to thevial and vortexed; clusters in PBS were removed and washed twice withPBS via centrifugation at 15K RPM for 1 minute (Eppendorf 5424). Next,embedded cells were lysed (see Spencer, S. J. et al. Massively parallelsequencing of single cells by epicPCR links functional genes withphylogenetic markers. 1-10 (2015). doi:10.1038/ismej.2015.124); clusterswere resuspended in 500 μL lysis buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl [pH 8.0], 1 mMethylenediaminetetraacetic acid [EDTA], 100 mM NaCl) with 75 U/μLlysozyme (Epicentre R1810M) and were incubated at 37° C. for 1 hour.Clusters were then resuspended in 500 μL digestion buffer (30 mMTris-HCl [pH 8.0], 1 mM EDTA, 0.5% Triton X-100, 800 mM guanidinehydrochloride [Sigma-Aldrich G9284]) with 0.1 m/μL proteinase K(Epicentre MPRK092), and were incubated at 65° C. for 15 minutes.Finally, clusters were incubated at 95° C. for 5 minutes to inactivateproteinase K and washed three times with TET.

Samples were next subjected to size-selection. Clusters were firstpassed through a 40 μm cell strainer (Fisher 22-363-547) to remove largeparticulate matter. Next, nylon mesh filters (Component Supply Company,7 μm: U-CMN-7-A, 15 μm: U-CMN-15-A, 31 μm: U-CMN-31-A) were cut to sizeusing a ½″ hole punch and two filter punches were placed in a holder(EMD Millipore SX0001300) for each size. Clusters were passed throughthe 31 μm filter, 15 μm filter, and 7 μm filter sequentially using a 3mL syringe (BD 309657); for each filter, clusters were passed throughthree times, and retained clusters on filters were washed once with TET.Clusters were washed off the 15 μm filter (large, ˜30 μm mediandiameter) and 7 μm (medium, ˜20 μm median diameter) or collected fromthe pass-through from the final 7 μm filter (small, ˜7 μm mediandiameter). The concentration of clusters was quantified by counting on ahemocytometer (INCYTO DHC-N01) and stored at 4° C. in TET for processingwithin ˜2 days. FIG. 13.

Co-Encapsulation of Beads and Clusters.

A microfluidic co-encapsulation strategy was utilized with three syringepumps (Harvard Apparatus Pump 11 Elite) and observed under a microscope(Nikon Eclipse Ti2). First, 300 μL of HFE-7500 (3M) with 5% w/wsurfactant (RAN Biotechnologies 008—FluoroSurfactant) was loaded into a1 mL low dead volume syringe (Air-Tite Products A1), the syringe wasfitted with a needle (BD 305122) and polyethylene tubing (ScientificCommodities Inc., BB31695-PE/2) and primed on a syringe pump. 30 μL ofpacked barcoded beads were then removed and washed twice with washbuffer (WB, 10 mM Tris HCl [pH 8.0], 0.1 mM EDTA, 0.1% Tween-20) andtwice with bead buffer (10 mM Tris HCl [pH 8.0], 0.1% Tween-20, 50 mMKCl, 10 mM fresh DTT [utilized to degrade clusters within droplets]) byaddition of buffer and centrifugation at 15K RPM for 1 minute. After the4 washes, remaining buffer supernatant was removed with a gel-loadingtip (Fisher 02-707-139). ˜5 μL of packed beads were loaded intopolyethylene tubing and primed with a 1 mL syringe (BD 309626)backfilled with 500 μL HFE-7500. The tubing was protected from lightwith a black tubing sheath (McMaster-Carr 5231K31) and primed on asyringe pump with needle facing upwards.

Next, a cluster stock was vortexed for 1 minute, ˜2,500 clusters wereremoved, washed three times in WB, and the remaining buffer was removedas above. A 45 μL encapsulation mix was prepared (25 μL NEBNext Q5 HotStart HiFi PCR Master Mix [NEB M0543L], 4 μL Nycoprep Universal[Accurate Chemical & Scientific Corp. AN1106865), 5 μL 10% w/v PluronicF-127 [Sigma-Aldrich P2443], 1.25 μL 20 mg/mL BSA [NEB B90005], 9.75 μLnuclease-free water) and clusters were resuspended in the mix andvortexed for >10 s. A 1 mL low dead volume syringe was backfilled with500 μL HFE-7500, and the encapsulation mix was added directly into thetip of the syringe. A needle and polyethylene tubing were fitted to thesyringe, protected from light with a black tubing sheath, and primed ona syringe pump with needle facing upwards.

Tubing was connected for the carrier, bead and cluster encapsulation mixchannels to a new microfluidic device. Pumps were primed for thecarrier, beads and cluster encapsulation mix channels in order and oncestable bead packing was observed set to final flow rates of 2 μL/min forcarrier, 0.3 μL/min for beads, and 2.7 μL/min for cluster encapsulationmix. Once stable droplet formation was observed, polyethylene tubing wasconnected to the outlet port and emulsion was collected in a PCR tube(Axygen PCR-02-L-C) prefilled with 10 μL of 30% w/w surfactant inHFE-7500 and 50 μL of mineral oil. Under these conditions, generateddroplets were ˜35-45 μm in diameter with bead occupancy of ˜25-50%(packed bead ordering enables loading beating expected Poissonencapsulation statistics (see Abate, A. R., Chen, C.-H., Agresti, J. J.& Weitz, D. A. Beating Poisson encapsulation statistics usingclose-packed ordering. Lab Chip 9, 2628-2631 (2009)) and extremely lowcluster occupancy of <0.1% (cluster aggregation and channel clogging isa limiting factor at higher concentrations). FIG. 14.

Emulsion PCR, Library Preparation and Sequencing.

The carrier phase underneath the emulsion was removed and replaced with30 μL of 30% w/w surfactant in HFE-7500 to ensure droplet stabilityduring PCR cycling. Tubes were placed on ice under a 365 nm UV light(Ted Pella Blak-Ray) and exposed for 10 minutes to release amplificationprimers. The emulsion was then subjected to PCR cycling (10° C. for 2 h,98° C. for 30 s; 30 cycles of: 98° C. for 10 s, 55° C. for 20 s, 65° C.for 30 s; 65° C. for 2 m) with heated lid off. Coalesced dropletfraction, if present, was removed by pipetting and the carrier phase andmineral oil were removed. Droplets were broken by addition of 20 μL1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluoro-1-octanol (Sigma-Aldrich 370533), and briefcentrifugation in a microfuge tube. The aqueous phase was extracted andpassed through a 0.45 μm spin column (Corning 8162) and subjected to anExo1 cleanup by adding 50 uL of 1× Exo1 buffer with 1 U/uL Exo1 (NEBM0293L) and incubating at 37° C. for 30 minutes. The mixture was thensubjected to a 1×SPRI bead cleanup (Beckman Coulter A63881) per themanufacturer's protocol with addition of 1× volume beads and elution in20 μL of 10 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0).

The resulting products were then subjected to a second PCR to add sampleindexes and Illumina P5 and P7 adapters. 10 μL of cleanup product wasused as template for a 50 μL reaction with 1×NEBNext Q5 Hot Start HiFiPCR Master Mix, 0.5 μM of each of the indexing primers (p5_X, p7_X, seeTable 3), and 0.1×SYBR Green I (Invitrogen S7567). The PCR (98° C. for30 s, cycle: 98° C. for 10 s, 68° C. for 20 s, 65° C. for 30 s; 65° C.for 2 m) was run on a real-time PCR machine (Bio-Rad CFX96) to stopreactions during exponential amplification (typically ˜10 cycles).Products were assessed on an agarose gel (2% E-gel, Thermo FisherG501802) to confirm the expected ˜490 bp amplicon and were subjected toa 1×SPRI bead cleanup as above. Resulting libraries were quantified viafluorometric quantitation (Thermo Fisher Q32854), pooled, and weresubjected to sequencing with an Illumina MiSeq 500 cycle v2 kit (read1:254 bp, read2: 254 bp) at 12 pM loading concentration with 20% PhiXspike in.

Sequence Filtering and 16S Analysis.

For MaP-seq data, a custom python script was utilized to demultiplexreads based on barcode identity and strip primer sequences from reads.Reads were merged and filtered using USEARCH 9.2.64 (see Edgar, R. C. &Flyvbjerg, H. Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction fornext-generation sequencing reads. Bioinformatics 31, 3476-3482 (2015)with maximum expected errors of 1. The resulting sequences were thendereplicated, de-novo clustered with a minimum cluster size of 2, andreads were mapped to OTUs at 97% identity (see Edgar, R. C. UPARSE:highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads. Nat.Methods 10, 996-998 (2013). Taxonomy was assigned to OTUs using the RDPclassifier (see Wang, Q., Garrity, G. M., Tiedje, J. M. & Cole, J. R.Naive Bayesian classifier for rapid assignment of rRNA sequences intothe new bacterial taxonomy. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 73,5261-5267 (2007). This yielded an OTU table consisting of individualbarcodes (i.e., putative clusters) as samples.

Cluster Mixing Quality Control Experiment.

Two bacterial communities were assembled; the first contained a singlestrain (e.g. E. coli NEB-beta), the second contained homogenized fecalbacteria. E. coli is not expected in the mouse gut at high abundances(see Xiao, L. et al. A catalog of the mouse gut metagenome. NatureBiotechnology 33, 1103-1108 (2015). To generate homogenized fecalbacteria, fecal pellets were subjected to bead beating (Biospec 1001)with 0.1 mm glass beads in PBS for 1 minute and passed through a 40 μmcell strainer. The two communities were fixed in methacarn, resuspendedin approximately equal volume matrix embedding solution to fixed pelletvolume and subjected to cluster generation as per the MaP-seq protocolabove. The resulting size-selected clusters were then mixed in equalquantity and subjected to encapsulation and sequencing.

Analysis of MaP-Seq Data.

An overview of all MaP-seq datasets generated in this study can be foundin Table 5. The resulting dataset contained a large number ofbarcodes/clusters with varying numbers of reads. A conservativethreshold cutoff for considering real clusters was set as the totalnumber of reads in a sample divided by 2,500 (i.e., the number ofclusters that were utilized as input during microfluidic encapsulation,and assuming an equal read distribution for each cluster). Reactionsyielding an extremely low number of clusters passing this threshold(i.e., <50) were conservatively excluded as they may represent failedencapsulation or amplification reactions.

Clusters were first pre-processed to remove a small number of clustersdisplaying highly similar OTU abundance profiles within a singletechnical replicate that appeared to represent technical artifacts(i.e., clusters encapsulated into droplets containing multiple barcodedbeads or beads erroneously containing multiple barcodes) which couldconfound association detection. The pairwise Pearson correlation of allclusters was calculated, and highly correlated sets of clusters (r>0.95)dominated by a single technical replicate and large in size (>90%belonging to a single technical replicate, clusters constitute >1% ofthe overall dataset) were removed. These artifacts constituted a lowamount of the overall dataset. For analysis of presence or absence ofspecies within a cluster, a 2% relative abundance threshold withinclusters was utilized, given observation of a small amount of backgroundread-through across clusters and to ensure that at least 2 reads (andnot singletons) were required to denote presence of a species.

To determine pairwise associations, prevalent and abundant OTUs withinfiltered clusters (>2% relative abundance in >10% of clusters) wereidentified, and 2 by 2 contingency tables of appearance (>2% relativeabundance) were calculated for all pairs of OTUs. Fishers exact test wasthen used to calculate the probability of pairs occurring more or lesstogether than expected (i.e. a null model of random assortment of thetwo species, assuming equiprobable occupancy at all sites), andresulting p-values were adjusted via the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure(FDR=0.05).

For t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE) analysis (seeMaaten, L. V. D. & Hinton, G. Visualizing Data using t-SNE. Journal ofMachine Learning Research 9, 2579-2605 (2008), reads for each clusterwere subsampled to the lowest number for all clusters in the dataset (asspecified in the text) since raw relative abundance values were analyzed(i.e. not utilizing a 2% relative abundance threshold as in otheranalyses). Bray-Curtis distance between taxa relative abundances withinclusters was calculated, and this resulting distance matrix was utilizedas the input for tSNE analysis.

The Net Relatedness Index (NRI) was calculated as previously described(see David, L. A. et al. Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the humangut microbiome. Nature 505, 559-563 (2014) adapting code from therelatedness library.py script from Qiime 1.9.1 (see Caporaso, J. G. etal. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data.Nat. Methods 7, 335-336 (2010)) which implements the same calculation asin phylocom 4.2 (see Webb, C. O., Ackerly, D. D. & Kembel, S. W.Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structureand trait evolution. Bioinformatics 24, 2098-2100 (2008)). Briefly,species presence and absences across clusters were defined using thesame 2% relative abundance threshold, and clusters containing only oneOTU were omitted from analysis. OTU sequences were aligned and aneighbor-joining tree was constructed using MUSCLE 3.8.31 (see Edgar, R.C. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and highthroughput. Nucleic Acids Research 32, 1792-1797 (2004). The NRI wascalculated as a standardized effect size for each cluster:NRI=−1*(MPD_(,-./012)-MPD_(3.--))/sd(MPD_(3.--)), where MPD_(,-./012)denotes the mean phylogenetic distance (MPD), and MPD_(,-./012) &sd(MPD_(3.--)) indicate the mean MPD, and the standard deviation of theMPD over 1000 iterations of a null mode. The null model, calculated foreach cluster, was random draws for the number of OTUs present in thesample (i.e. preserving cluster OTU richness) from the sample pool (i.e.any OTU observed at least once in any cluster in the sample) withoutreplacement. The null model therefore preserves the OTU richness of eachcluster but randomizes the OTUs present from the set of OTUs occurringin the sample.

Bulk 16S Sequencing and Spike-in for Absolute Abundance Calculation.

The bulk sequencing protocol followed our established spike-insequencing pipeline (see Ji, B. W. et al. (2018)). Briefly, genomic DNA(gDNA) extraction was performed using a custom liquid handling protocolon a Biomek 4000 robot based on the Qiagen MagAttract PowerMicrobiomeDNA/RNA Kit (Qiagen 27500-4-EP) but adapted for lower volumes. Sampleswere subjected to bead beating for a total of 10 minutes. For samplesprocessed with the spike-in sequencing approach for absolute abundancecalculation, the sample added was weighed on an analytical balance, and10 uL of a frozen spike-in strain concentrate (Sporocarcina pasteurii,ATCC 11859, an environmental bacterium not found in the gut microbiome)was added during gDNA preparation. Resulting gDNA was subjected toamplification and sequencing of the 16S V4 region following a dualindexing scheme (see Kozich, J. J., Westcott, S. L., Baxter, N. T.,Highlander, S. K. & Schloss, P. D. Development of a Dual-IndexSequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing AmpliconSequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform. Applied andEnvironmental Microbiology 79, 5112-5120 (2013)) but utilized updated515f and 806rB primers as in the MaP-seq technique. A 20 μL PCRamplification was performed (1 μM forward and 1 μM reverse barcodedprimers, 1 μL prepared gDNA, 10 μL NEBNext Q5 Hot Start HiFi Master Mix,0.2× final concentration SYBR Green I). The PCR (98° C. for 30 s; cycle:98° C. for 20 s, 55° C. for 20 s, 65° C. for 60 s, 65° C. for 5 m) wasrun on a real-time PCR machine to stop reactions during exponentialamplification. Amplicon products were quantified and pooled, theexpected 390 bp product was gel-extracted, and paired-end sequencing wasperformed with an Illumina MiSeq 300 cycle v2 kit (read1: 154 bp, read2:154 bp, custom sequencing primers spiked into sequencing kit) at 10 pMloading concentration with 20% PhiX spike in. Resulting sequences wereprocessed with USEARCH as above. The absolute bacterial density for asample (A) was calculated by utilizing the weight of sample added (w)and proportion of reads mapping to spike in strain (p/) in the followingformula: A=(1−p/)/(p/*w). The absolute density of individual OTUs wascalculated by rescaling the total sample absolute density by therelative abundance of sample OTUs.

16S FISH and Imaging.

Samples were fixed as with the MaP-seq protocol, embedded withinparaffin blocks, 4 μm thick lumenal sections were cut anddeparaffinized. 16S FISH was performed as previously described (see MarkWelch, J. L., Rossetti, B. J., Rieken, C. W., Dewhirst, F. E. & Borisy,G. G. Biogeography of a human oral microbiome at the micron scale.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, E791-800 (2016);Whitaker, W. R., Shepherd, E. S. & Sonnenburg, J. L. (2017). Briefly,previously validated FISH probes targeting abundant taxa present in thesample were obtained with conjugated fluorophores suitable for multipleximaging: Erec482_a488 or Erec482_cy3 (see Franks, A. H. et al.Variations of bacterial 710 populations in human feces measured byfluorescent in situ hybridization with group-specific 16S rRNA-targetedoligonucleotide probes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64,3336-3345 (1998) targeting Lachnospiraceae, Lab158_cy3 (see Harmsen, H.,Elfferich, P. & Schut, F. A 16S rRNA-targeted probe for detection oflactobacilli and enterococci in faecal samples by fluorescent in situhybridization. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 11, 3-12 (1999))targeting Lactobacillaceae and Enterococcaceae, Ato291_cy5 (see Harmsen,H. et al. Development of 16S rRNA-based probes for the Coriobacteriumgroup and the Atopobium cluster and their application for enumeration ofCoriobacteriaceae in human feces from volunteers of different agegroups. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 66, 4523-4527 (2000))targeting Coriobacteriaceae, Eub338_cy5 (see Amann, R. I. et al.Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flowcytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations. Applied andEnvironmental Microbiology 56, 1919-1925 (1990)) targeting Bacteria, andNon338_cy5 (see Wallner, G., Amann, R. & Beisker, W. Optimizingfluorescent in situ hybridization with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotideprobes for flow cytometric identification of microorganisms. Cytometry14, 136-143 (1993)) control probe (see Table 4). Sections were incubatedwith probes at 10 ng/μL in FISH hybridization buffer (0.9 M NaCl, 20 mMTris-HCl pH 7.5, 0.01% SDS, 10% formamide) at 47° C. for 4 hours.Sections were then incubated in preheated FISH wash buffer (0.9 M NaCl,20 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.5) for 10 minutes, washed 3× times in PBS, incubatedwith 10 μg/mL DAPI in PBS for 10 minutes and washed 3× times in PBS.Sections were then mounted in mounting medium (Vector LaboratoriesH1000).

Images were acquired on a Nikon Eclipse Ti2 epifluorescence microscopewith a SOLA-SE2 illuminator and Andor Zyla 4.2 plus camera controlled byNikon Elements AR software. DAPI, FITC/GFP, RFP and CY5 filter cubes(Nikon 96359, 96362, 96364, 96366 respectively) were utilized. Largearea four-color fluorescence scans with three 0.6 μm Z-stacks within the4 μm section were performed with a Plan Apo λ 40× objective. Theextended depth of focus (EDF) module was applied to resulting Z-stacksto obtain a focused image across the stack, and images across the entiresection were stitched together.

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Example 2 Precision Microbiome Replacement to Enhance Cancer CheckpointImmunotherapy

The human gut contains trillions of microorganisms (microbiota) thatform a complex and unique ecosystem within our bodies. It is now clearthat these bacteria have systemic effects on the host and can directlyinteract with many classes of pharmaceutical interventions, alteringefficacy and clinical outcomes^(1,2). A prime example of this effect isin cancer immunotherapy, where recent studies suggest that the commensalmicrobiota modulate the efficacy of therapies involving monoclonalantibodies (mAbs) targeted to the PD-1 receptor, via stimulation of theimmune system²⁻⁷. Importantly, it has been observed that living bacteriain gut are required to elicit this effect³. Correspondingly, approachesto alter microbiomes to improve the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy aresorely needed.

Current microbiome manipulation strategies broadly fall under twoapproaches: chemical perturbation and probiotic supplementation⁸. Theabundance of bacterial species within a given microbiome can be alteredby administration of chemical compounds (i.e. different diets, prebioticcompounds, antibiotics). Alternatively, new bacterial strains orcombinations of strains (probiotics or fecal microbiota transplant) withfunctionality of interest can be administered. However, the pervasivevariability of individual microbiomes limits the efficacy of thesetechniques. Chemical perturbations will be unsuccessful if a targetedbacterial species is not present, and their effect can be highlyvariable. Supplemented probiotic strains may not robustly colonize allmicrobiomes⁹. An alternative to these approaches is to completelyreplace a microbiome with a new defined microbiome containing specificdesired functionality. Here, precision microbiome replacement, a newparadigm in manipulating microbiomes, can be used to enhance cancerimmunotherapy.

Specific Aims:

To develop a precision microbiome replacement therapy to improve theefficacy of cancer immunotherapies, we will (1) generate a comprehensivereference collection of gut bacterial strains, (2) identify strainspromoting immunotherapy efficacy using combinatorial in vivo animalmodel screens, and (3) develop a microbiome transplantation therapy andformulate strains into stable consortia for delivery.

Approach:

(1) Generate a comprehensive reference collection of gut bacterialstrains. Individual bacterial strains can act as effectors (i.e.,stimulating the host immune system) in the context of complexcommunities¹⁰. Fecal samples will be collected from geographically andenvironmentally distinct individuals representing global gut microbialdiversity. Samples will then be subjected to culturing and isolation inanaerobic settings, and individual strains will be isolated utilizingcolony picking robots. Resulting bacterial strains will be identifiedand characterized using whole-genome sequencing and unique strains ofinterest will be subjected to long-term cryogenic storage. Thissequencing characterization may be conducted by utilizing robotic liquidhandling for library preparation (i.e. Labcyte Echo 550, Agilent Bravo,Formulatrix Mantis; sequence on HiSeq X Ten). This automated approachwill allow for generation of a gut bacterial strain collection resourcein an economic manner.

(2) Identify strains promoting immunotherapy efficacy usingcombinatorial in vivo animal model screens. Representative strains fromthe collection will be selected, revived from storage and inoculatedinto cohorts of germ-free mice. The mice will be subjected to standardcancer models (e.g. metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma) andgiven mAb checkpoint immunotherapy (e.g. cemiplimab) and efficacy andresponse to therapy will be measured. Importantly, the screen will beperformed with different combinations of strains rather than individualstrains, to enable efficient and higher throughput screens¹⁰. Strainspromoting efficacy of immunotherapy will be identified.(3) Develop a new microbiome transplantation therapy and formulatestrains into stable consortia for delivery. To perform efficientmicrobiome transplantation, strategies utilizing oral antibiotic therapyto clear to eradicate commensal microbiota and subsequent oral deliveryof new microbial strains will be tested in gnotobiotic mouse models withhumanized microbiota. Combinations of antibiotics, dosing, and timing ofthe therapy in addition to physical clearing of the gut and dietarychanges will be explored to optimize efficient elimination of endogenousmicrobiota and colonization of new strains. Next, the identifiedimmunotherapy enhancing strains will be formulated into a complexmicrobiome consortium recapitulating the ecology and functionality ofnaturally occurring microbiomes. The stability of the microbiome (i.e.retention of desired strains over time, resistance to invasion by othercommensal strains) will be measured in mice models and improved byiterative design.

Some species of gut bacteria may be recalcitrant to in vitro isolation.Recent studies, however, suggest that the majority of the gut microbiomeis culturable¹², and the cultivability of species could be furtherimproved by systematic exploration of culture media formulation. Thetransplantation and resulting microbiome could differ across individualsdue to interactions between the strains and the host. However, recentstudies suggest that environment dominates host genotype in determiningmicrobiota composition, implying that microbiome transplantation may bereproducible across different host backgrounds¹³.

Although there may be variability of microbiomes across individuals,direct therapeutic microbiomes interventions can be used. Alternatively,new microbiomes with desired functionality can be designed and replaced.Cancer immunotherapy offers a salient first application of the concept,but the pipeline could be broadly scaled to other microbiome linkedhuman disorders.

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Example 3 Antibiotics I

Disruption of the normal homeostatic balance of the gut can lead toprofound changes in the gut microbiome. For example, antibiotics areknown to cause large-scale alterations to the gut microbiome. Ingeneral, antibiotics not only target the intended pathogens, but oftencause collateral damage in wiping out native commensal microbiota thathave sensitivity to the compound. Clinical administration of antibioticsnot only reduces biodiversity in the gut microbiome, but alsopredisposes individuals to a variety of short- and long-term diseases,including antibiotic-associated C. difficile infections, diabetes, andinflammation. While it is generally believed that antibiotic exposuredisrupts the state of the microbiome by increasing its fragility andsusceptibility to pathogenic infections, specific mechanisms mediatingthis process is not understood. In large ecological systems, changes inspatial patterning can play an important role in susceptibility toinvasion, for example in exotic plant invasion in river and creekecosystems. Exposure to antibiotics c a n lead to destabilization of thenatural commensal microbiota by removing key members in the communitythat facilitate robust interspecies interactions, which in turn ismarked by a profound change in the microbial spatial architecture thatreduces the microbiome's natural resistance to colonization bypathogens. We used two wild-type C57BL6/J mice that were both fed on aconventional diet and co-housed prior to normalize their gut microbiota,which was validated by bulk fecal sequencing. We then separated the miceinto individual cages and introduced ciprofloxacin (0.625 mg/mL) indrinking water ad-libitum for 2 days in one cage and a sham control inthe other cage. We extracted small intestinal tissues from both thecontrol and ciprofloxacin-treated mice and applied bulk 16S sequencingand MIST-seq. As expected, exposure to antibiotics significantly shiftedthe gut community, leading to an overall loss in microbiome diversityand the domination of particular groups (e.g. Lactobacillales andClostridiales) compared to the wild-type control (FIG. 15A). Moreinterestingly, we observed a robust small intestinal interaction network(FIG. 15B) that is significantly disrupted by ciprofloxacin, resultingin a few dominant species with drastically altered spatial organization.

Example 4 Antibiotics II

The prevalent use of antibiotics both in pediatrics and adultpopulations and its impact on the gut microbiome is hypothesized to be akey contributor in the rise of autoimmune and metabolic disorders.However, the impact of specific antibiotics on the gut microbiome canvary significantly depending on the type (e.g. broad vs narrow spectrum,antibiotic class), therapeutic dosage and duration, resistance profilesof endogenous bacteria, and geographic location along the GI. We willexplore how antibiotics can alter the spatial microbiota organization.Altered spatial patterns due to antibiotics exposure may reflect changesin microbiota function beyond simple variations in community compositionor abundance. We will use antibiotics with various modes of action andvarying levels of host and microbiota impact. Specifically, we willadminister Ciprofloxacin (Lincoasimide; single oral gavage 10 mg/kg),Vancomycin (Glycopeptide, 0.625 mg/mL, drinking water ad libitum),Ampicillin (□-lactam, 0.5 mg/mL, drinking water ad libitum),Streptomycin (Aminoglycoside, 5 mg/mL, drinking water ad libitum) todifferent cohorts of 5 pre-cohoused wild-type C57BL6/J mice aspreviously described. Mice from each cohort will be sacrificed at day 0(before treatment), 3, 7 and 10 (FIG. 16a ). Samples from the smallintestine, colon and fecal matter will be analyzed by MIST-seq. Wecollect temporal samples to assess the transition states from anunperturbed microbiota to one that is compromised by antibiotics. Threebiological replicate studies will be performed and both male and femalemice will be tested separately. As before, should additional replicatesbe needed for sufficient statistical power, we will increase the numberof mice per group accordingly. Based on our preliminary studies, weexpect knockdown or abolition of specific species and a loss inbiodiversity upon treatment. We anticipate that the spatial ecologicalrole of strains killed by an antibiotic will be a key factor in itsdegree of GI microbiome disruption. Disrupted networks may lead to morefragile states with reduced inter-microbial interactions and increasedvulnerability to infiltration by a pathogen. Importantly, previous workshowed that some antibiotics (e.g. Ampicillin, Streptomycin) increasedmurine gut susceptibility to C. difficile infection, whereas others(e.g. Ciprofloxacin, Vancomycin) led to resistance. We will comparespatial mapping results between these two antibiotic “classes” toidentify systematic spatial differences and key players. For validation,we will perform bulk sequencing to assess abundance and compositionalchanges. In addition, we will apply FISH techniques to visualizespecific architectural changes using specific probes to identify majormicrobiota families, pre- and post-antibiotic treatment. We will alsoperform in vitro culture studies and antibiotic sensitivity assays onisolates to validate MIST-seq findings.

To functionally characterize gut microbiota ecology, we will employ aclassical ecology approach to introduce species into novel or perturbedenvironments, and tracked them longitudinally over space and time. Wewill introduce “mock” murine fecal transplants into wild-type andantibiotic-perturbed mice and profile the colonization process.Specifically, 5 cohorts of C57BL6/J mice will be obtained commercially(Taconic Biosciences), 4 of which will be orally treated with differentantibiotics for 10 days, and the remaining will serve as a controlgroup. We will isolate live fecal microbiota from mice obtained throughanother vendor (i.e. Jackson Laboratories, Charles River Laboratories)that are known to harbor highly distinct microbiomes, which we willvalidate by bulk 16S sequencing (FIG. 16b ). Freshly collected fecalpellets will be placed in pre-reduced PBS in anaerobic conditions andlive microbiota will be isolated by established protocols. Two groups of3 mice from each of the four cohorts will receive a different fecalmicrobiota gavage (approximating a human FMT procedure); the controlgroup will receive a gavage of pre-reduced PBS; animals will besacrificed at days 0, 3 and 10, and tissue from the small intestine andcolon will be profiled; the experiment will be performed in triplicateand with gender-controlled cohorts. As before, should additionalreplicates be necessary for sufficient statistical power, we willincrease the number of mice per group accordingly. We will then performdetailed analysis of ecosystem assembly of the two different “donor”fecal transplants in the five “recipient” ecological contexts.Importantly, this will allow us to assess processes shaping FMT efficacyin an in vivo context. For example, given that diet plays an importantrole in microbiota composition via environmental filtering (i.e.available nutrients), the spatial and compositional structure ofmicrobiota after FMT may be similar to that before perturbation. On theother hand, novel spatial patterns may form due to other ecologicalprocesses such as microbial competition¹⁷ or cooperation. Thus, thisstudy will advance our functional knowledge of principles thatcontribute to microbiota colonization and maintenance, relevant fordesigning better FMT therapies (e.g. defined communities or personalizedFMT).

TABLE 6 Sequences Sequence ID Number Sequence Species SEQ ID NO: 1GACTACTCCACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 2ATTAGGTCGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCTGGACTACNVGG Synthetic GTWTCTAAT SEQ ID NO: 3TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 4CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCTAGTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 5CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGAGCTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 6CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACTCTCTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 7CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGAACACAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 8CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCAGCTAAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 9CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTATGGTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 10CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAACGGTAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 11CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTTGGCAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 12CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGACTTCAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 13CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGCTTAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 14CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCACTAGAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 15CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCGCTATAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 16CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGACACTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 17CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAGGAACAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 18CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTGACCAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 19CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGTAGCAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 20CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTGAGAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 21CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACAACTGAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 22CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAGTCAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 23CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTACATAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 24CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGAGTGCAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 25CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCTGTTAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 26CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCTCTAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 27CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATTCCACAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 28CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCGTATGAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 29CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTTGTAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 30CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTAGTCAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 31CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTTCTCGAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 32CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTAAGAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 33CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGATCTCAAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 34CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATCGAACAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 35CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACGCATAGATCGGAAGAGCG Synthetic TCGTG SEQ ID NO: 36CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAACTCAGGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 37CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGCCACAAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 38CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATGGCGATAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 39CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAATCAGCGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 40CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGTTGTACAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 41CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCGACTTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 42CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGGAAGCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 43CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGCATGTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 44CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAATCGGAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 45CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAAGCTCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 46CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTGTCACAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 47CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTGTTCCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 48CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCCGAATCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 49CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGAGTACAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 50CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGACAGAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 51CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCACAGTTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 52CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGACAACAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 53CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCACGTAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 54CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCAACAGTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 55CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCAGGACAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 56CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTATCCTGAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 57CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTCTGTCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 58CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCTAGTCTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 59CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTAATGGCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 60CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGTGGCTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 61CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAATCTGCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 62CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTCGATGCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 63CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGCTTGGTTAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 64CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCTGATCAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 65CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCATAAGCGGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 66CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACTTCGGAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 67CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTAGTCGAAGATCGGAAGAGC Synthetic GTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 68CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTCTTGCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 69CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTAGACTCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 70CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGAAGGCCTAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 71CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTCGTAAGGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 72CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGATCACCTAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 73CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTAGCTAACGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 74CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTAGAAGGAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 75CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTCTCGAAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 76CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTAGTTCCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 77CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCGAAGAGAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 78CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTGACATAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 79CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTGAGAACGAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 80CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCCAGCTGAAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 81CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCGTTCGACAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 82CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCTTAGACCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 83CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACGAGCAAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 84CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTGCCGAATAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 85CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGGGCTCATAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 86CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACCGTACTAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 87CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTGTCTCGAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 88CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTTACTGCGAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 89CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTCCATACGAAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 90CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGATCCAGGTAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 91CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGTTGCGAAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 92CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGGTTGAGAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 93CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCGTTGCGCTTAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 94CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCGAGAGAAGATCGGAAGA Synthetic GCGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 95CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCTGTTCCTAGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 96CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCTCACACTGAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 97CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCACCACATGTAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 98CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCAGCTTAACCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 99CGCTCAGCAGTGTCTCGCCACCTATGCAGATCGGAAGAG Synthetic CGTCGTG SEQ ID NO: 100CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACTGGTACCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 101CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTACTGTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 102CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTGTGTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 103CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTATGGCTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 104CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTTGTCAGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 105CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATGCCAGTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 106CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGCTACTACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 107CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCATACACGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 108CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCGAGGATCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 109CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTTCGATCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 110CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGGAACACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 111CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGTTGCATCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 112CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATACGTCCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 113CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATCTGGACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 114CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTCGAAGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 115CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTGTGCTACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 116CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGGTGGAACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 117CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCAACGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 118CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGTCATTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 119CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGATACGCCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 120CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAACTGCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 121CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTGCACACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 122CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCGATCATCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 123CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACAAGGACCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 124CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATTCGGTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 125CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGTGACGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 126CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAAGTCTGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 127CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGGACGAACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 128CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAGTTCCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 129CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATAGGAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 130CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGCTTGGACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 131CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACATCCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 132CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTCCTGACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 133CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTTGTAGCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 134CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAGGAGTACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 135CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACAAGGACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 136CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTCCTCTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 137CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCATTGCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 138CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGCACATAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 139CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACTGTACCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 140CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTGATCTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 141CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAATGCCGTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 142CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCCTTGTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 143CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTAGGCACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 144CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGCCTCTTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 145CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGATTACGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 146CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCCAGGAATCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 147CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAGTCAGTCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 148CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGAGAGGACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 149CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGACTCACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 150CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCTCAGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 151CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAACCGGTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 152CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTACTGAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 153CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAACCACTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 154CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAGTTACCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 155CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATGGATGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 156CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTACCTCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 157CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCAAGAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 158CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGATCTACGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 159CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACATTCCGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 160CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTGAATCCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 161CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGGCCATACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 162CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCTTGCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 163CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGTGTTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 164CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGAAGCGTTCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 165CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAACGCCACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 166CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGGCTGTACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 167CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCTACAGTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 168CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTCAGAGCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 169CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTGCCTACACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 170CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGGATTGACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 171CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGGAGGATTCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 172CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCATTAGCCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 173CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGGTCACCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 174CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAAGCAAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 175CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAACATCCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 176CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGACGACAACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 177CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATCGAGTCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 178CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTATGCGAGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 179CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTAGCTTCCCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 180CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACCAACGTCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 181CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACACGCGATACGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 182CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCAGCTACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 183CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACCAGATCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 184CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAACCTTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 185CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTTGCCTTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 186CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACAGTCTGCTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 187CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTCCTTCACGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 188CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCGGTCTATCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 189CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACTCTGCCTTCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 190CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCAAGTTGGCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 191CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACATCTACGGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 192CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACTTCTGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 193CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACCACACAACCGCTCAGCAGTG Synthetic TCTCGC SEQ ID NO: 194CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGCCTAATGCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 195CGACGAGGCTGGAGTGACGTTCGCATCGCTCAGCAGTGT Synthetic CTCGC SEQ ID NO: 196TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAGTCTAGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:197 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCTCTATCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 198 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCATTCTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 199 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACGGTTGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 200 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACTCTACCCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 201 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTAGGTCCACGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 202TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCCTGAGTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:203 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTGGATAGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 204 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCGCTATTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 205 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGAAGGAACGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 206 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGACTCAACGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 207 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACACTCGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 208TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCGGAATTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:209 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACTTGCCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 210 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGACAGGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 211 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTTAGCGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 212 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTGTTGCACGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 213 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAACACGCGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 214 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCTTGATGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 215TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGCGATCTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:216 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCTCAGAACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 217 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATTGCGTGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 218 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCATCCGTTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 219 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTCTGGTCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 220 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACGAGCACGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 221 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACGTTCACCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 222TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATCAGCACCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:223 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGATAGCGACGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 224 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAGCTTGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 225 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGATCGTCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 226 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACGATACGCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 227 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTAACTGGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 228TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCGCGTAACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:229 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGGTTCTTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 230 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGGTTCGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 231 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAAGTAGCCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 232 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGCTAGAACGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 233 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCATCGTGACGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 234TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCACCAACCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:235 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTTCAAGGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 236 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGTAGCTCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 237 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCACATTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 238 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTCACGGACGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 239 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGACGTTGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 240TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCATCTGGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:241 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGTTCATCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 242 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACCGTCACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 243 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCTAAGCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 244 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCAGGTAGACGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 245 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAAGAACCGCGACGAGGCSynthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 246TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGAGACTCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:247 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGTGAAGGCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 248 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCTTCAGCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 249 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAACGGAGTCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 250 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAAGAGACCGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 251 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATTGGTGGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 252TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTGTCAAGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:253 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGCATCACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 254 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAAGAGGTCCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 255 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCATTCGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 256 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGGACGTCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 257 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTGCTGGACGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 258TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGGAGATGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:259 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACGTACCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 260 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGACACCTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 261 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTCCATTGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 262 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCAGAGAAGCGACGAGGC SyntheticTGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 263 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCTTCAGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 264TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTACACTGCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:265 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGACGTATCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 266 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCTCGCATACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 267 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCATCCTACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 268 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGGCTTACCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 269 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTAAGTCGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 270TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTTCTGGAGCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:271 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGACACACACGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 272 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACCAGACACGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 273 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGCAGCTTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 274 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCAACTTCCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 275 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACTCGCTTCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 276TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGAACTCCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:277 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTGTAAGCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 278 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACATGCACCTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 279 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCCGTCAACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 280 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTCGGTATCGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 281 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACACAGATCCCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 282TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTCGGATCTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:283 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACAGAGTCGTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 284 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGAATAGCGCGACGAGGC Synthetic TGGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 285 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGGATTGGTCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 286 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCCATAGACGACGAGGCT SyntheticGGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 287 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACTGTCAGAGCGACGAGGCTSynthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO: 288TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCCTACGAACGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ ID NO:289 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGTTACGTCCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQ IDNO: 290 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACCGAGATACCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGAC SEQID NO: 291 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCACACGCATTGACCGACGAGGCT Synthetic GGAGTGACSEQ ID NO: 292 ACTAGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 293 AGCTCTA Synthetic SEQ IDNO: 294 AGAGAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 295 GTGTTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO:296 TTAGCTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 297 ACCATAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 298TACCGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 299 GCCAACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 300GAAGTCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 301 TAAGCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 302CTAGTGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 303 ATAGCGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 304AGTGTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 305 GTTCCTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 306TGGTCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 307 TGCTACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 308CTCAACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 309 CAGTTGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 310TGACTGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 311 ATGTACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 312GCACTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 313 TAACAGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 314TAGAGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 315 GTGGAAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 316CATACGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 317 ACAACCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 318GACTACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 319 CGAGAAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 320CTTACCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 321 TGAGATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 322GTTCGAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 323 ATGCGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 324CCTGAGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 325 TTGTGGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 326ATCGCCAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 327 CGCTGATT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 328GTACAACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 329 AAGTCGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 330GCTTCCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 331 ACATGCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 332CCGATTGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 333 GAGCTTGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 334GTGACACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 335 GGAACACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 336GATTCGGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 337 TGTACTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 338TCTGTCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 339 AACTGTGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 340TGTTGTCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 341 TACGTGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 342ACTGTTGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 343 TGTCCTGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 344CAGGATAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 345 GACAGACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 346AGACTAGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 347 GCCATTAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 348AGCCACTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 349 GCAGATTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 350GCATCGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 351 AACCAAGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 352GATCAGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 353 CCGCTTAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 354TCCGAAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 355 TCGACTAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 356GCAAGAACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 357 GAGTCTACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 358TAGGCCTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 359 CCTTACGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 360AGGTGATCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 361 CGTTAGCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 362CCTTCTACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 363 TTCGAGAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 364GGAACTAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 365 TCTCTTCGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 366ATGTCACCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 367 CGTTCTCAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 368TTCAGCTGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 369 TGTCGAACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 370GGTCTAAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 371 TTGCTCGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 372ATTCGGCAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 373 TATGAGCCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 374AGTACGGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 375 TCGAGACAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 376TCGCAGTAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 377 TCGTATGGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 378ACCTGGATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 379 TTCGCAACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 380TCTCAACCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 381 AAGCGCAAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 382TCTCTCGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 383 CTAGGAACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 384CAGTGTGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 385 ACATGTGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 386GGTTAAGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 387 GCATAGGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 388GTACCAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 389 ACAGTACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 390CACACAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 391 GAGCCATA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 392CTGACAAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 393 ACTGGCAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 394TAGTAGCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 395 CGTGTATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 396ATCCTCGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 397 ATCGAACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 398TGTTCCGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 399 ATGCAACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 400GGACGTAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 401 TCCAGATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 402CTTCGAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 403 TAGCACAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 404TTCCACCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 405 CGTTGCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 406GAATGACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 407 GCGTATCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 408AGCAGTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 409 TGTGCACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 410ATGATCGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 411 GTCCTTGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 412GACCGAAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 413 CGTCACAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 414CAGACTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 415 TTCGTCCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 416AGGAACTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 417 CTCCTATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 418TCCAAGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 419 AGGATGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 420TCAGGACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 421 GCTACAAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 422TACTCCTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 423 TCCTTGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 424CAGAGGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 425 AGCAATGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 426CTATGTGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 427 GTACAGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 428GAGATCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 429 ACGGCATT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 430GACAAGGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 431 TGCCTACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 432AAGAGGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 433 CGTAATCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 434ATTCCTGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 435 ACTGACTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 436TCCTCTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 437 TGAGTCGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 438CTGAGCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 439 ACCGGTTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 440CTCAGTAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 441 GAGTGGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 442GGTAACTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 443 CATCCATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 444AGAGGTAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 445 CTCTTGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 446CGTAGATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 447 CGGAATGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 448GGATTCAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 449 TATGGCCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 450AGCAAGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 451 CAACACGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 452AACGCTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 453 TGGCGTTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 454TACAGCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 455 CACTGTAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 456GCTCTGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 457 TGTAGGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 458TCAATCCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 459 AATCCTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 460GGCTAATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 461 GTGACCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 462CTTGCTTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 463 GGATGTTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 464TTGTCGTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 465 GACTCGAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 466CTCGCATA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 467 GGAAGCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 468ACGTTGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 469 TATCGCGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 470TAGCTGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 471 ATCTGGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 472CAAGGTTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 473 CAAGGCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 474AGCAGACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 475 TGAAGGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 476ATAGACCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 477 AAGGCAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 478CCAACTTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 479 CCGTAGAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 480CAGAAGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 481 GTTGTGTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 482CATTAGGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 483 ATGCGAAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 484CTAGACTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 485 ATAGAGGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 486AGAATGGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 487 CAACCGTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 488GGTAGAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 489 TGGACCTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 490ACTCAGGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 491 CTATCCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 492AATAGCGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 493 TTCCTTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 494TTGAGTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 495 CGAGTGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 496AATTCCGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 497 GGCAAGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 498CCTGTCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 499 CGCTAAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 500TGCAACAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 501 CGTGTTCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 502CATCAAGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 503 AGATCGCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 504TTCTGAGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 505 CACGCAAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 506AACGGATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 507 ACCAGAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 508TGCTCGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 509 GTGAACGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 510GTGCTGAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 511 TCGCTATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 512CAAGCTCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 513 GACGATCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 514CGTATCGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 515 CCAGTTAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 516TTACGCGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 517 AAGAACCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 518CGAACCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 519 GCTACTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 520TTCTAGCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 521 TCACGATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 522GTTGGTGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 523 CCTTGAAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 524GAGCTACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 525 AATGTGGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 526TCCGTGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 527 CAACGTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 528CCAGATGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 529 GATGAACG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 530TGACGGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 531 GCTTAGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 532TCTACCTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 533 CGGTTCTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 534AGTCTCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 535 CCTTCACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 536GCTGAAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 537 ACTCCGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 538GTCTCTTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 539 CCACCAAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 540CTTGACAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 541 TGATGCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 542GACCTCTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 543 CGAATGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 544ACGTCCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 545 TCCAGCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 546CATCTCCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 547 GGTACGTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 548AGGTGTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 549 CAATGGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 550CTTCTCTG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 551 CTGAAGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 552GCAGTGTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 553 ATACGTCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 554TATGCGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 555 TAGGATGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 556GTAAGCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 557 CGACTTAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 558CTCCAGAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 559 TGTGTGTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 560TGTCTGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 561 AAGCTGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 562GAAGTTGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 563 AAGCGAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 564GGAGTTCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 565 GCTTACAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 566AGGTGCAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 567 TTGACGGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 568ATACCGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 569 GGATCTGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 570AGATCCGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 571 ACGACTCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 572CGCTATTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 573 ACCAATCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 574TCTATGGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 575 CTCTGACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 576TTCGTAGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 577 GACGTAAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 578GTATCTCG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 579 GTCAATGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 580CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTCGATGAGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 581CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAACGATCCGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 582CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTAACGTGGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 583CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATATGGAGGAGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 584CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGCGAAGATGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 585CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATACTTCGCTGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 586CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTGCGTAAGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 587CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGGTCAAGTGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 588CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGGCTTACGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 589CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGATTCTCGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 590CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGTCTCCTAGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 591CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGACGGTATGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 592CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCATGGTGTGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 593CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTGTCTACCGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 594CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATACCATGCAGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 595CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCATTCCTGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 596CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGGACTAGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 597CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGCTTGTTGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 598CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATAGTCACACGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 599CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCCAGTTGTGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 600CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATCTCCATTCGTGACTG SyntheticGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 601CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATTTGCCAACGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 602CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATGAGCACATGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 603CAAGCAGAAGACGGCATACGAGATATGTGGTGGTGACT SyntheticGGAGTTCAGACGTGTGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 604AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTAGATCGCAC SyntheticACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 605AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACCTCTCTATAC SyntheticACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 606AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACTATCCTCTAC SyntheticACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 607AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACAGAGTAGAA SyntheticCACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 608AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACGTAAGGAGA SyntheticCACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 609AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACACTGCATAAC SyntheticACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 610AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACAAGGAGTAA SyntheticCACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 611AATGATACGGCGACCACCGAGATCTACACCTAAGCCTAC SyntheticACTCTTTCCCTACACGACGCTCTTCCGATCT SEQ ID NO: 612 CTCATCGA Synthetic SEQ IDNO: 613 GGATCGTT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 614 CCACGTTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO:615 TCCTCCAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 616 ATCTTCGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 617AGCGAAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 618 CTTACGCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 619ACTTGACC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 620 GTAAGCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 621CGAGAATC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 622 TAGGAGAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 623ATACCGTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 624 ACACCATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 625GGTAGACA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 626 TGCATGGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 627CAGGAATG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 628 CTAGTCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 629CAACAAGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 630 GTGTGACT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 631ACAACTGG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 632 GAATGGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 633GTTGGCAA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 634 ATGTGCTC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 635CACCACAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 636 TAGATCGC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 637CTCTCTAT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 638 TATCCTCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 639AGAGTAGA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 640 GTAAGGAG Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 641ACTGCATA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 642 AAGGAGTA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 643CTAAGCCT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 644 AGATCGGAAGAGCGTCGTG Synthetic SEQ IDNO: 645 TTACCGCGGCKGCTGRCAC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 646 GCTTCTTAGTCAGGTACCGSynthetic SEQ ID NO: 647 GGTATTAGCAYCTGTTTCCA Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 648GGTCGGTCTCTCAACCC Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 649 GCTTCTTAGTCAGGTACCG SyntheticSEQ ID NO: 650 GCTGCCTCCCGTAGGAGT Synthetic SEQ ID NO: 651ACTCCTACGGGAGGCAGC Synthetic

The scope of the present invention is not limited by what has beenspecifically shown and described hereinabove. Those skilled in the artwill recognize that there are suitable alternatives to the depictedexamples of materials, configurations, constructions and dimensions.Numerous references, including patents and various publications, arecited and discussed in the description of this invention. The citationand discussion of such references is provided merely to clarify thedescription of the present invention and is not an admission that anyreference is prior art to the invention described herein. All referencescited and discussed in this specification are incorporated herein byreference in their entirety. Variations, modifications and otherimplementations of what is described herein will occur to those ofordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention. While certain embodiments of the present invention havebeen shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the artthat changes and modifications may be made without departing from thespirit and scope of the invention. The matter set forth in the foregoingdescription and accompanying drawings is offered by way of illustrationonly and not as a limitation.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method of determining microbial identitiesand/or abundances in a biological sample, the method comprising: (a)immobilizing the biological sample in a matrix; (b) fracturing thematrix into clusters; and (c) determining identities and/or abundancesof microbes in the clusters.
 2. The method of claim 1, wherein theclusters comprise co-localized cells.
 3. The method of claim 1, whereinin step (c) identities and/or abundances of microbes are determined bysequencing DNAs and/or RNAs.
 4. The method of claim 3, wherein the DNAsare genomic DNAs.
 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the in step (c)identities and/or abundances of microbes are determined by analyzingproteins, polypeptides, and/or metabolites.
 6. The method of claim 1,wherein in step (a) the biological sample is immobilized via perfusionand polymerization of the matrix.
 7. The method of claim 1, wherein thematrix comprises a polymer.
 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the matrixcomprises an acrylamide polymer.
 9. The method of claim 1, wherein thematrix comprises a plurality of 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA)amplification primers.
 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the pluralityof 16S rRNA amplification primers are covalently linked to the matrix.11. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of 16S rRNAamplification primers are linked to the matrix through photocleavablelinkers.
 12. The method of claim 11, wherein the photocleavable linkersare acrydite linkers.
 13. The method of claim 1, further comprising step(d) processing the matrix by chemical or enzymatic means after step (a)or step (b).
 14. The method of claim 13, wherein step (d) compriseslysing cells.
 15. The method of claim 1, further comprising step (e)passing the clusters through a filter for size selection.
 16. The methodof claim 15, wherein after step (e) the clusters have a median diameterranging from about 1 μm to about 100 μm.
 17. The method of claim 15,wherein after step (e) the clusters have a median diameter ranging fromabout 10 μm to about 50 μm.
 18. The method of claim 15, wherein afterstep (e) the clusters have a median diameter ranging from about 1 μm toabout 20 μm.
 19. The method of claim 1, wherein the clusters aremicroparticles.
 20. The method of claim 1, wherein in step (b) thematrix is fractured through cryo-fracturing.
 21. The method of claim 20,wherein the cryo-fracturing is cryo-bead beating.
 22. The method ofclaim 1, wherein in step (c) identities and/or abundances of microbesare determined through droplet-based encapsulation.
 23. The method ofclaim 22, wherein the droplet-based encapsulation is throughco-encapsulating the clusters with beads in droplets, wherein eachdroplet comprises a cluster and a bead, each bead comprising a uniquemolecular barcode.
 24. The method of claim 23, wherein the beadscomprise a plurality of 16S rRNA amplification primers, and wherein theplurality of 16S rRNA amplification primers linked to each bead comprisea unique molecular barcode.
 25. The method of claim 24, wherein theplurality of 16S rRNA amplification primers are covalently linked to thebeads.
 26. The method of claim 24, wherein the plurality of 16S rRNAamplification primers are linked to the beads through photocleavablelinkers.
 27. The method of claim 26, wherein the photocleavable linkersare acrydite linkers.
 28. The method of claim 23, wherein the beadscomprise a polymer.
 29. The method of claim 23, wherein the beadscomprise an acrylamide polymer.
 30. The method of claim 22, wherein thedroplet-based encapsulation is through capturing the clusters inemulsion droplets comprising molecular barcodes, each emulsion dropletcomprising identical molecular barcodes.
 31. The method of claim 30,wherein the emulsion droplets have a diameter ranging from about 35 μmto about 45 μm.
 32. The method of claim 1, further comprising step (f)cleaving the plurality of 16S rRNA amplification primers from the matrixand/or the beads.
 33. The method of claim 1, further comprising step (g)degrading the matrix.
 34. The method of claim 33, wherein the matrix isdegraded through exposure to reducing conditions.
 35. The method ofclaim 1, further comprising step (h) polymerase chain reaction (PCR)amplification.
 36. The method of claim 3, wherein the sequencing is deepsequencing.
 37. The method of claim 1, wherein the biological sample isobtained from a mammal.
 38. The method of claim 37, wherein thebiological sample is obtained from a nervous system, a pulmonary system,a peripheral vascular system, a cardiovascular system, and/or agastrointestinal system of a mammal.
 39. The method of claim 37, whereinthe biological sample is obtained from the brain, a lung, a bronchus, analveolus, an artery, a vein, a heart, an esophagus, a stomach, a smallintestine, a large intestine, or combinations thereof.
 40. The method ofclaim 1, wherein the biological sample is obtained from a tumor or is atumor sample.
 41. The method of claim 1, wherein the biological sampleis a soil sample, a gut sample, and/or a biofilm sample.
 42. The methodof claim 1, wherein the biological sample is an environmental sample.